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Six Months After Oil Spilled Into California Tributary, Families Worry the Cleanup Was Never Finished

People in Ventura County are also concerned that an early estimate—which noted that about 420 gallons of crude oil was accidentally released into a waterway last fall—is inaccurate. Local and federal officials are investigating.

By Steven Rodas

 Santa Paula resident Ethan Higbee walks the area where an oil spill took place six months earlier in Ventura County. He smells residue he worries is oil remains. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News
An oil tanker navigates the Strait of Hormuz on April 28. Credit: Asghar Besharati/Getty Images

How Oil Fuels Conflict and War—and Who Profits

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
Water pooling is seen on Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas. Credit: Courtesy of Schuyler Wight

An Oilfield Leak Springs Under a Permian Basin Baptist Church

By Martha Pskowski
Jackie Chesnutt props up a sign next to a leaking oil well operated by CORE Petro on her property near Knickerbocker, Texas, on Nov. 18, 2025.

Low-Producing Oil Wells in Texas Cause Headaches for Landowners

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje
A ship heads toward the Strait of Hormuz following a temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran on April 8. Credit: Shady Alassar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Global Finance and Energy Leaders Warn of Potentially Dire Impacts From Iran War

By Phil McKenna
A construction crew works on Shell’s Vito platform at the Kiewit Offshore Services complex on April 6, 2022, in Ingleside, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

By Kiley Price
A person pumps gas at a BP station on Tuesday in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

How the Iran War Reveals the Extent of Fossil Fuel Propaganda

By Lee Hedgepeth
Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, where ConocoPhillips operates the Alpine Field. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Workers assemble wind turbine blades at the construction site of a wind farm in Zhangye City, China, on April 17, 2025. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

China’s Clean Energy Push Has Made It Less Vulnerable to Energy Shocks, Including the Iran War

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Georgina Gustin
An oil refinery sits near the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in Texas. Credit: Loren Elliott/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Claims Indian Investment Will Make Long-Standing Plans for Brownsville Refinery a Reality

By Martha Pskowski
Plumes of smoke rise over the oil depot tanks hit by overnight attacks on March 8 in Tehran, Iran. Credit: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images

The Iran War Is Making the Case for Renewable Energy, Experts Argue

By Aman Azhar
A man pumps gasoline into his vehicle at a station on March 4 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Credit: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images

The Oil Price Shock Is Here. Its Arrival Provides a Familiar Warning.

By Dan Gearino
ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance speaks during a meeting about Venezuela with President Donald Trump and other oil executives at the White House on Friday. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Fight Over Venezuelan Oil Highlights Shadowy International Legal System

By Nicholas Kusnetz
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, meets with U.S. oil company executives in the at the White House on Friday. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Oil Executives Non-Committal to Trump’s Venezuela Pitch at the White House

By Dennis Pillion
A PolarOil storage facility is seen on March 26, 2025, in Nuuk, Greenland. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images

As Trump Eyes Greenland, What Could That Mean for Island’s Mineral Wealth and Environment?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
A view of the El Palito refinery operated by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. Credit: Jesus Vargas/picture alliance via Getty Images

‘The Dirtiest, Worst Oil’ Is in Venezuela

By Phil McKenna
A fisherman casts a net into the sea as an oil tanker is seen anchored in the background on Dec. 18, 2025, in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Credit: Jesus Vargas/Getty Images

Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin

Trump’s Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling Meet Bipartisan Opposition

By Keerti Gopal
Caribou and geese roam around Teshekpuk Lake in North Slope Borough, Alaska. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

ConocoPhillips Wants to Explore for Oil in an Arctic Wilderness

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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