Many places are pro-environment and wary of pipelines. Santa Barbara was the first, with oil spills spawning an environmental ethic that is central to the city’s identity. In 1969, another major ...

ExxonMobil wants to restart offshore drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel, putting the California coastline at great risk of another massive oil spill. We’re not going ... killing hundreds of marine ...

The plan would have helped the company restart three 1980s-era drilling platforms off the Santa Barbara coast that have been shut down since the Refugio oil spill disaster seven years ago.

Three student organizations launched a campaign, Stop Sable Pipeline @ UC Santa Barbara, to stop Houston-based upstream oil ...

the unit was shut down after a badly corroded pipeline ruptured near Refugio beach and caused the second most damaging oil spill in Santa Barbara history. "It killed you know countless marine ...

The Marine Sanctuaries Act was approved by Congress in 1972, one of many environmental laws passed in response to the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. Today, 17 sanctuaries and two marine national ...

Center for Biological Diversity Announces Federal Judge Allows New Arguments Against Oil Drilling Restart Off Southern ...

In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Christopher Reddy of Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution discusses his laboratory’s work investigating oil spills and uncovering ...