The pending closure of two California refineries has oil companies and environmental groups seeing more eye-to-eye.

As higher gas prices loom, Democrats offer phony relief.

In a potential watershed for local oil production, a senior Sacramento energy official recommended Friday that the Newsom administration exempt Kern County’s contentious petroleum permitting plan from ...

Valero Energy is a hedge against inflation amid refinery capacity declines, rising EV sales, and limited capital investments.

The state excise tax just went up, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard is getting more strict and 2 refineries are shutting down.

The list of Sacramento bars getting the axe is growing bigger.

Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at the Capitol in Sacramento in March 2023 before signing a bill aimed at the oil industry and refiners ... Bay Area oil refinery faces uncertain future after owner ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As oil refiners make a case in Sacramento for a bailout, new data published by the California Energy Commission shows oil refiners making 97 cents ...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Friday it has approved an exchange from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR, with ...

Eight major refineries account for about 96% of crude oil capacity in the state — and that figure includes the Valero refinery in Benicia and the Phillips 66 twin facilities in Carson and ...

The refinery employs over 400 people and can process 170,000 barrels of oil per day. “It is the sixth largest refinery in the state and this is a very big deal,” said Severin Borenstein, an ...

In a potential watershed for local oil production, a senior Sacramento energy official recommended Friday that the Newsom administration exempt Kern County’s contentious petroleum permitting ...