Gavin Newsom and environmental advocates Friday in Los Angeles to call on voters to rescue Senate Bill 1137, a state law that intends to ban new oil and gas drilling within 3,200 feet of homes ...

The ruling temporarily halts the issuance of new drilling permits. Kern County now has the option of attempting to rewrite the ordinance in a way that satisfies the judicial ruling. California ...

The Biden administration on Monday finalized a new rule it says will reduce taxpayer responsibility for the process of ...

Others would ban drilling during summer months when ozone is high, increasing fines for violations from $300 a day to $52,000 a day. In addition to legislation, nearly a dozen ballot measures have ...

A proposal to ban new oil and natural gas well drilling in Colorado failed in its first hearing before state lawmakers Thursday. Members of the Colorado Senate’s Agriculture and Natural ...

No new drilling beginning in 2032, so it’s a ban on the industry,” Dan Haley, president and CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, said. “The peak period for a well is the first 18 months.

A political group backed by oil and natural gas companies has filed ballot initiative proposals to ban new well drilling and tighten air quality regulation in a counterintuitive attempt to ...

A UK energy company is to start drilling at the biggest oil field discovered in the North Sea in at least 20 years in spite ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Natural gas drilling companies would be banned in ... use a different mix of chemicals to circumvent New York's ban on hydraulic fracturing, and they claim that using captured ...

The industry aims to get around the state’s fracking ban by using CO2, but that technique poses many of the same threats to our water, health, and climate. Most of the same impacts associated with the ...

“They're either trying to game the system or have recognized the fact that we need to do more to reduce air pollution from oil and gas drilling ... ballot proposal to ban state or local ...