A much-debated oil ... new oil wells and phase out existing ones in 2022. Changes to state law allowed the city to reinstate its ban after it was challenged in a lawsuit filed in L.A. County ...

A high-profile law intended to phase out oil production ... precedence over the county ban. “While the city [of L.A.] has the authority to determine the location of wells within its boundaries ...

A Bureau of Land Management proposal to lease more than 10,000 acres northwest of Meeker for oil and gas development hypothetically could result in the drilling of 24 horizontal wells there ...

Dozens of idle wells in Kern County were discovered to be leaking methane in residential neighborhoods — some at concentrations high enough to be explosive. By one estimate, about two-thirds of ...