in Pennington, New Jersey, will host an opening reception for a solo exhibition of oil paintings by award winning Philadelphia impressionist Lauren Acton. The reception, which is open to the ...

Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings ... the style of some of her paintings of California poppies on an ...

An oil sheen spotted off the Southern California coast last week was possibly caused by a natural seep from the ocean floor, but the exact source still isn't known, U.S. Coast Guard officials said ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to limit oil companies' profits was met with criticism by Democrats, Republicans and experts alike at a state hearing earlier this week. During the ...

The state of California has filed a sweeping climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, as well as the domestic oil industry's biggest lobby, the American ...

Full financial assurances from buyers for well clean-up costs have stalled all 37 proposed oil well sales in 2023. 41% of California's wells are idle or orphaned, with clean-up costs estimated at ...

Oil giant Valero announced this week it may shutter its refinery in Benicia. The company sent a notice to the California Energy Commission indicating it may restructure the refinery or cease ...

David Santiago dsantiago@miamiherald.com Many Californians are unaware of the other side of California’s oil supply — the financial and environmental costs of importing oil. Californians have ...

“Now it’s time to choose whether to stand with California families or with Big Oil in our fight to make them play by the rules,” the governor said in a statement. The oil industry has ...

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Determined to save the world from climate change, California has nearly shut down its oil and gas industry, though the Golden State currently gets 50 percent of its total energy from oil and another ...

Kern County, California, is undergoing one of the fastest energy transitions in the nation. The area's famous oil industry is in decline due to falling revenues and the state's aggressive climate ...