When a small company leased an oil field in California’s Central Valley six ... roughly an hour west of Bakersfield, is surrounded by a sea of large black oil pumps. Umbro notes that the new ...

Groups like the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club argue in their suit that the permitting violated the Clean ...

Health and conservation groups sued the Bureau of Land Management today, challenging its approvals of new oil and gas drilling permits on public lands in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

including right across the street from its crude oil storage facility site in central Bakersfield, where the water ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Environmental and community groups ... plan to open more than a million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to oil drilling and fracking. The rallies ...