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Oil seeps are particularly active off the coast of Santa Barbara County. In fact, the Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve leaks about 4,200 to 25,000 gallons of oil per day, NOAA said. Winkle returned ...

A Houston-based oil company has rebuffed the authority of the California Coastal Commission in a bid to revive drilling off ...

To the editor: Few communities know the devastation that oil drilling can produce as much as Santa Barbara (“Under Trump, Texas firm pushes to restart Santa Barbara oil drilling. Is it skirting ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Wishtoyo Foundation sued the California Office of the State Fire Marshal today for ...

The California Coastal Commission on Thursday fined an oil company a record $18 million for repeatedly defying orders to stop work on a corroded pipeline in Santa Barbara County that caused a ...

Fifty-six years ago, a disaster off the coast of Santa Barbara sparked the creation of Earth Day, a movement that continues to ...

An offshore oil platform, with Santa Cruz Island in the background, in the Santa Barbara Channel is shown. (UCG / Universal Images Group / Getty Images) ...

An offshore oil platform with Santa Cruz Island in the background in California's Santa Barbara Channel. (Marli Miller/UCG/via Getty Images) ...