As the final round of a storm series closes in on Southern California, crews are racing to clean up an oil spill in Ventura ...

A unified command included the state's Office of Spill Prevention and Response, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the ...

The amount of crude oil spilled in an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California is believed to be close to 25,000 gallons, or only about one-fifth of what officials initially feared, a Coast Guard ...

More than 50 years since the oil spill near Santa Barbara, a look back at one of the worst ecological disasters in the ...

Birds were found covered in oil on the Refugio beach. — -- Two days after a ruptured pipeline leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of oil off the California shore, wildlife -- including pelicans -- ...

The Interior Department released its plan to open up federal waters off California’s coast to oil drilling, setting up a ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal ...