After a catastrophic fire at a Bay Area renewable fuel refinery nearly killed a worker, his union colleagues fought for ...

California has one climate rule everyone already knows: every new car sold in the state must be zero-emission by 2035. It has ...

California is one of the places where fuel prices have long traded above global averages, but the current crisis is pushing that premium into uncharted territory. A steadily shrinking refining base ...

Gavin Newsom and his family have had a long and complicated relationship with the oil industry. The latest chapter in the ...

With more industry closures looming, labor leaders are urging lawmakers to expand the safety net that has helped more than ...

Refiners Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp. confirmed Thursday that they had received subpoenas from California Attorney General Kamala Harris requesting ...

According to the Energy Information Administration, today, California ranks first in jet fuel demand among the states. The California Energy Commission (CEC) projects in-state jet fuel demand will ...

California is the fourth largest economy in the world and an “energy island” that is isolated from the other 49 states by the Sierra Mountains. There are no pipelines over those majestic mountains to ...

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. California is considering handing oil refineries and other ...

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California’s shrinking refining base is cutting local gasoline output to a decade low, pushing the state into structurally higher import dependence. Price incentives are diverting refinery throughput ...