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(The Center Square) – California lawmakers proposed making fossil fuel companies liable for natural disasters by allowing natural disaster victims and insurance companies to sue them due to ...
The California agency that regulates oil and gas operations concludes that a law on well-plugging does not apply to a merger of two giant fossil fuel companies, angering the law's author.
The nonprofit California Council on Science and Technology estimates that of more than 100,000 active and idle oil wells in the state, some 5,540 are orphaned. Cleaning them up could cost the ...
The early California oil industry has served as a setting for several notable fictional novels and films: Oil! (1927), a novel of social criticism by Upton Sinclair, is set against the background of the California oil industry and is loosely based on the career of Edward Doheny and events related to the Teapot Dome scandal.
The refinery was built in 1968 for Humble Oil and completed in 1969. Humble Oil changed its name to Exxon in 1972. Valero purchased the property in 2000. In October 2024, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and California Air Resources Board issued an $82 million fine over air pollution violations at the Benicia Refinery, following a 2019 inspection, with the fine being the largest in ...
Arthur and Earl Gilmore with the staff of Gilmore Oil around 1914. Earl is leaning against the automobile with a roof while his father stands next to him with his hand on the fender of a Model T. [1] Arthur Fremont Gilmore moved to California in the 1870s and, with another farmer Julius Carter, established a dairy farm in Compton.
Mar. 5—California has been going all out in its anti-oil and natural gas campaign, banning the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles, restricting, and in some instances, forbidding new oil wells ...
A California law that severely restricts oil drilling within close proximity to homes, schools and businesses is set to take effect after an industry group said it would withdraw an expensive ...