Teenage filmmaker Sheena Rock’s short, which screens this Saturday, explores the unintended beauty and ecological benefits of ...

RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE AT 8AM, HEARING AT 9AM Join the Environmental Defense Center, Get Oil Out!, SBCAN, Santa Barbara ...

Sable Offshore's attempts to restart oil production in Santa Barbara County received two key updates from County and ...

Santa Barbara was the first, with oil spills spawning an environmental ethic that is central to the city’s identity. In 1969, another major spill at an offshore oil platform disgorged 100,000 ...

The plan would have helped the company restart three drilling platforms off the Santa Barbara coast, shut down since the disastrous Refugio oil spill eight years ago. ExxonMobil proposed to truck ...

Three student organizations launched a campaign, Stop Sable Pipeline @ UC Santa Barbara, to stop Houston-based upstream oil ...

The plan would have helped the company restart three 1980s-era drilling platforms off the Santa Barbara coast that have been shut down since the Refugio oil spill disaster seven years ago.

Oil from the May 2015 pipeline spill fouls the shore of Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County. The San Luis Obispo City Council has issued a resolution opposing new offshore oil and gas ...

Goleta leaders made their stance clear by unanimously adopting a resolution to oppose the restart of oil pipelines in the ...

The Goleta City Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Feb. 4 opposing Sable Offshore restarting the Las Flores Pipeline ...

"Thank god we had broad support here in the community," noted Panetta. Since the devastating 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, California has prohibited new offshore oil and gas drilling in state waters.