LOS ANGELES (AP) - A commercial fisherman sued the owner of the oil pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast, alleging the environmental disaster would cause ...

Sable Offshore and environmental advocacy groups were in court Wednesday when the Houston-based energy company ...

Alongside our partners at the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, the Environmental Defense Center helped secure the designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, providing permanent ...

For Santa Barbara, the oil pipeline debate is not new. It comes with hard-earned lessons shaped by decades of oil development ...

An offshore oil platform with Santa Cruz Island in the background in California's Santa Barbara Channel. (Marli Miller/UCG/via Getty Images) More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – The California Coastal Commission has cited federal laws and a court agreement to ...

Kudos to the Environmental Defense Center for successfully opposing Sable Offshore’s attempt to block the effects of its proposed reopening of the former Plains All-American Pipeline from public view.

The Sable Offshore Corp. oil platform Harmony is visible last month from Refugio State Beach. (Michael Owen Baker / For The Times) Almost 10 years to the day after a massive oil spill fouled the Santa ...

Tuesday's oil spill is being called "a worst nightmare scenario" by officials in Santa Barbara, California. It's giving us images of dead birds, clean-up crews and over nine miles of California Coast ...

More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along Santa Barbara's coastline served to galvanize the modern environmental movement and also helped to usher in one of the state's strongest ...