The Justice Department said the president has the legal authority to overrule state regulators and reopen an offshore oil ...

The U.S. Department of Justice issued a legal opinion on Tuesday that President Donald Trump could order Sable Offshore Corp.

Since last fall, residents of Santa Barbara, California have patrolled the night, armed with binoculars. Their purpose? Catching unauthorized work to restart a corroded pipeline that spilled over ...

A Texas company whose ruptured pipeline created the largest coastal oil spill in California in 25 years had assured the government that a break in the line while possible was "extremely unlikely" and ...

A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that Sable Offshore Corp. cannot restart the Las Flores oil pipelines until it receives ...

A Santa Barbara Superior Court today upheld its July preliminary injunction prohibiting the restart of an onshore oil pipeline system that ruptured in 2015 until certain conditions are met.

External corrosion on a pipeline pumping crude was the root cause of the rupture in May that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of oil on the Santa Barbara coast, federal regulators reported Wednesday.

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 ...

Cleanup efforts after the oil spill at Refugio State Beach in 2015. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times ) But Exxon is not Sable’s only friend in a high place. Just a few weeks ago, the Trump administration ...

An oil spill along the coast near Santa Barbara has dumped about 21,000 gallons of oil from a 2-foot pipeline onto the shore, creating a 4-mile slick in the ocean, forcing an emergency cleanup and ...