Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] The California Coastal Commission fined an oil company a record $18 million on Thursday for repeatedly defying orders to stop work ...

The California Coastal Commission on Thursday fined an oil company a record $18 million for repeatedly defying orders to stop work on a corroded pipeline in Santa Barbara County that caused a ...

TikTok creators have been raving about an unexpected remedy for bloating: applying castor oil inside the belly button. While castor oil has been used as a laxative in the past, there’s no scientific ...

For almost 100 years, this mile-plus of oceanfront property in Huntington Beach has been used by oil and natural gas facilities, but now it could be redeveloped into an 800-unit housing ...

To the editor: Few communities know the devastation that oil drilling can produce as much as Santa Barbara (“Under Trump, Texas firm pushes to restart Santa Barbara oil drilling. Is it skirting ...

An offshore oil platform with Santa Cruz Island in the background in California's Santa Barbara Channel. (Marli Miller/UCG/via Getty Images) ...

Main equity benchmarks in Middle East countries including Saudi Arabia sank the most since 2020 on Sunday as investors reacted to the risks of a fresh global trade war and depressed oil prices.

More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along Santa Barbara's coastline served to galvanize the modern environmental movement and also helped to usher in one of the state's strongest ...

More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along Santa Barbara’s coastline served to galvanize the modern environmental movement and also helped to usher in one of the state’s strongest ...

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If you go down the rabbit hole like I did, you’ll inevitably come across Barbara O’Neill (among other creators), touting stats and studies that make castor oil sound like a cure-all.