Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a bill to streamline permitting for new oil wells. It’s a proposal ...

The Trump administration reportedly has plans to open the waters off California's coast to new oil and gas drilling for the first time in four decades, drawing swift condemnation from Gov. Gavin ...

The move restores a 2020 plan issued in Trump’s first term that opened much of the 23-million-acre petroleum reserve to drilling. The Interior Department on Monday approved a plan that would reopen ...

Pump jacks are seen at dawn in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation near Lost Hills, California. David McNew TNS Thanks to electric vehicles, demand for oil has been steadily declining in ...

Drilling permits, once plentiful in California, have become a prized commodity within Kern County’s oil industry. Companies that have them can boast to investors, while those without may complain of ...

Arctic Drilling Alaska FILE - In this undated photo provided by the United States Geological Survey, permafrost forms a grid-like pattern in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska managed by the Bureau ...

Florida lawmakers are considering bills to limit or ban oil and gas drilling near the Apalachicola River. The proposed legislation comes after public outcry over a permit granted for an exploratory ...

The process to award a permit to supermajor BP to drill at its Vorlich oilfield in the North Sea has been ruled “unlawful” by a UK court following a legal challenge from environmental group Greenpeace ...