SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— Santa Barbara County has released the final environmental impact report on ExxonMobil’s proposal to transport oil by tanker trucks so it can restart three drilling platforms off ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— Santa Barbara County’s Planning and Development Department has issued a staff report recommending that policymakers approve ExxonMobil’s proposal to transport oil by tanker ...

On Tuesday, Sable Offshore filed a complaint against the California Coastal Commission in Santa Barbara County Superior Court ...

Sable Offshore Corp. sued the California Coastal Commission on Tuesday, challenging the agency’s cease-and-desist orders for its Santa Barbara County ...

Sable Offshore's attempts to restart oil production in Santa Barbara County received two key updates from County and ...

Three student organizations launched a campaign, Stop Sable Pipeline @ UC Santa Barbara, to stop Houston-based upstream oil company Sable Offshore from restarting the Las Flores Pipeline System. In ...

Exxon’s oil platforms off Santa Barbara County were shut after the attached onshore pipeline ruptures and spilled oil on Refugio State Beach in 2015. This photo by Drew Bird at drewbirdphoto.com ...

Santa Barbara was the first, with oil spills spawning an environmental ethic that is central to the city’s identity. In 1969, another major spill at an offshore oil platform disgorged 100,000 ...

Many Santa Barbarans might assume oil drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel is a thing of the past, that the platforms will be decommissioned as we move toward a cleaner energy future. That’s not true ...

Teenage filmmaker Sheena Rock’s short, which screens this Saturday, explores the unintended beauty and ecological benefits of ...

In federal waters just north of Santa Barbara, three existing offshore oil platforms just cleared a major hurdle to come back online. "This company is trying to restart these platforms ...