Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vice President Kamala Harris was questioned about her stance on fracking during Tuesday’s presidential debate between her and ...

Fracking and drilling could be coming back to California. Environmental advocates say it could be devastating to wildlife and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Public land now open to leasing includes a parcel next to Cate School in Carpinteria, a public park in Lompoc, and land ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Leasing for new oil and gas drilling on federal land in central California is temporarily blocked under a settlement announced Monday between the state and the U.S. Bureau of ...

… and move the Golden State off oil! California is on the cusp of long-fought for, urgently needed climate action. We need to make sure it passes and build on this momentum for more. … and move the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— California’s oil and gas regulator submitted its final regulations banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to the state’s Office of Administrative Law on Monday. This is the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Oil and gas drillers that use a technique known as fracking would face new rules in California under legislation sent to the governor's desk Wednesday. The measure includes a ...

The lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Los Angeles claims the Department of the Interior failed in not taking a hard enough look at the full range of environmental impacts from oil and gas extraction ...

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, ...