Restoring Sable Offshore Corp.'s Santa Ynez unit and pipeline off Santa Barbara aims to address supply disruption risks, according to a department news release.
Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be huge but the risks are greater than ever.
All southbound lanes of Highway 99 near Road 15 in Madera County have reopened after a crash led to asphalt erosion early Saturday morning.
The controversial pipeline operated by TransCanada started leaking Thursday outside the town of Amherst, South Dakota.
Plains All American Pipeline says a California grand jury has indicted the company and one of its employees in connection with a pipeline break that spilled more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil along the Santa Barbara County coast and into the ocean.
Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County is set to reopen July 17 around noon after being shut down for more than two months due to a devastating oil spill.
