Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent years making it harder to produce oil in his state, and Californians are picking up the tab in the form of America’s highest gasoline prices. Now a Kern County judge has ...

Just two years after oil fracking was formally banned in California, and five years after fracking approvals ended, Kern County Superior Court Judge Bernard C. Barmann Jr is backing fracking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An offshore oil platform is seen in the Santa Barbara Channel, with Santa Cruz Island in the background. (UCG/UCG/Universal Images ...

A new report on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in California warns of the risks of irreversible contamination of surface and groundwater near oil drilling sites, unless the technique is carefully ...

California regulators have released official plans for phasing out fracking in the Golden State — nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared his intentions to do so. The proposed ...

California’s Geologic Energy Management Division is in the midst of finalizing regulations to ban fracking across the state, which will officially go into effect on October 1. The department submitted ...

The California Senate declined to pass SB 1132, a bill that would have imposed a statewide ban on energy production using hydraulic fracturing methods. The vote marked the second time in two years ...

Nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom directed it, California's oil and gas industry regulator kickstarted a process to outright ban hydraulic fracturing, the fossil fuel extraction method known ...

California oil and gas regulators have formally released their plan to phase out fracking three years after essentially halting new permits for the practice. The California Geologic Energy Management ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - California fracking opponents aiming to stop development of massive state oil reserves are focusing their drive this year around the state's record-breaking drought, ...

A Southern California oil company is trying to launch the state's first new offshore fracking project in over a decade, potentially paving the way for more of the controversial extraction work along ...