The oil field where the company plans to build its pilot, roughly an hour west of Bakersfield, is surrounded by a sea of large black oil pumps. Umbro notes that the new equipment will be low to ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif ... These wells are at the Fruitvale, McKittrick, Mount Poso and Mountain View oil fields in Kern County, ...

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.

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