Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking a state regulator to try to keep oil refineries in business in the state ...

Valero Energy Corporation announced it will close its Benicia Refinery, which joins an exodus of oil companies leaving the ...

Valero is planning to shut down its Benicia refinery by April 2026, which experts say could put gas prices at stake.

The “transit and intercity rail capital program” soaked up $2.5 billion. Another $220 million went to the “zero emission ...

Oil giant Valero announced this week it may shutter its refinery in Benicia. The company sent a notice to the California ...

The vast oil refinery in Benicia faces an uncertain future after its owner warned of the plant’s possible closure.

Instead, Big Oil’s most influential allies in California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature – the unions that represent oil industry workers – led the opposition. They successfully persuaded a ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (CN) — Environmental advocates on Tuesday sued the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, over its approval of safety regulation waivers to restart ...

The commission voted Thursday to fine a Texas-based oil company $18 million for ignoring its orders to stop work on oil pipelines on the Santa Barbara coast. The California Coastal Commission ...

A Texas oil company wants to work on a pipeline out in the Pacific Ocean beyond Santa Barbara, California, but it just got smacked down by the state. Houston-based Sable Offshore was fined $18.2 ...

Oil Company Fined Record $18 Million for Defying State Orders to Stop Work on Pipeline The California Coastal Commission fined an oil company a record $18 million on Thursday for repeatedly ...