In a 16-page ruling dated Sept. 6, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Curtis A. Kin overturned the city’s ordinance to ban new oil drilling and phase out existing drilling within the city ...

Law would have banned oil drilling, extraction methods Justices said state regulators must make those calls Aug 4 (Reuters) - The California Supreme Court has struck down a county's voter-approved ...

The same 2019 GAO report found a wide range of plugging costs for orphaned wells on public land, ranging from $20,000 to as much as $145,000 per well, with a median cost of $71,000 to plug the ...

Most of what limited drilling has been occurring this year in western Colorado has been in Rio Blanco County, where there had been 72 well starts as of Dec. 1, up from 14 for all of last year.

Los Angeles has dozens of oil and gas fields and more than 5,000 oil and gas wells. Activists say that low-income communities of color are disproportionately harmed by the wells, which are largely ...

Capitol Alert California law restricting oil wells near homes to take effect after industry drops ballot challenge By Ari Plachta Updated June 27, 2024 4:54 PM ...

A top executive of Schlumberger NV (SLB), the world's largest energy services firm, on Monday predicted autonomous drilling of oil and gas wells will beat autonomous driving cars to market and ...