SAN FRANCISCO – Companies prospecting for oil off California’s coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed, and now regulators are ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – California regulators on Thursday were set to take up offshore fracking after revelations that the practice had quietly occurred off the coast since the late 1990s. The California ...

The contentious practice has been paused by a 2022 court injunction. Federal regulators on Tuesday said they are weighing approval of the first offshore fracking near California since a protracted ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The oil production technique known as fracking is more frequently used in the offshore platforms and man-made islands near some of California's most populous and famous coastal ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Environmentalists Tuesday called on California Gov. Jerry Brown to halt plans for months of hydraulic fracturing in the waters off Southern California, warning that it could lead to ...

Department of Energy’s Kyle Haustveit says hydraulic fracturing could boost recovery rates and extend life of ageing offshore ...

Senate Bill 709, the Energy Jobs Act, is designed to encourage energy exploration off the North Carolina coast and study inland opportunities, a move backers say would reduce North Carolina's reliance ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. A group of California lawmakers wants ...

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 ...

CNOOC Ltd's Hai Yang Shi You 696 to be deployed next year to country's low-permeability reservoirs Chinese offshore giant CNOOC Ltd has taken delivery of the hydraulic fracturing equipment for its ...