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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

2023 ExxonMobil’s application to temporarily truck crude oil from its Gaviota coast facility to Santa Maria, and eventually Maricopa, was denied last week on a split vote by the Santa Barbara ...

The Goleta City Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Feb. 4 opposing Sable Offshore restarting the Las Flores Pipeline ...