Report shows that hiring nine new oil and gas regulators would generate a half-billion dollars in remediation work.
Two years after it began, state regulators have yet to issue any penalties for the spill, which ranks among the largest in state history.
The company’s owners have a history of maximizing profit at the public’s expense.
Video by Christian Monterrosa shows the massive job cleanup crews have on the Southern California shoreline.
The renewed agreement with Amplify Energy could keep the pipeline responsible for the spill in operation through 2040.
The oil company behind a spill in Inglewood is headed by a powerful lobbying official who’s fighting tougher regulations.
Richmond Mayor Tom Butt was publicly optimistic about a Chevron oil refinery spill. In private he offered a much more critical assessment.
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Last fall Valero, the Texas-based petroleum giant, asked a small refinery town in Northern California to approve a huge crude-by-rail project. The city council of Benicia, however, had other ideas.
Everybody knows that sunflowers turn their heads toward the sun. But until now no one knew whether the movement simply followed the sun’s arc, or whether some internal rhythm guided the plants. Now we have a clue.
On Wednesday, May 20, the day after a Santa Barbara County fire inspector discovered a stream of contaminated crude oil flowing onto a pristine segment of the Southern California coast, a group of researchers published a study linking the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to a mass die-off of bottlenose dolphins. The 46 carcasses examined for the study had suffered from “rare, life-threatening and chronic adrenal gland and lung diseases.” The researchers concluded that these diseases were “consistent with exposure to petroleum compounds as seen in other mammals.”
46 years after the first oil spill that wrecked the Santa Barbara coast, not much has changed
Hearing this, the casual observer might say duh, and wonder why such a study makes the news at this late date, a full five years after British Petroleum’s oil rig exploded and sank,
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