A central piece of a closed crude oil refinery in Convent recently came crashing down as Shell Oil shifts the nearly 60-year-old complex toward making renewable fuels, company officials confirmed. The ...

California’s oil empire, it seems, is cracking, if not yet crumbling. The once-dominant industry, which in California dates back more than 150 years ago, has long been on the decline. Oil fields once ...

The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery, shown here in a Nov. 19, 2024, file photo, has now closed. What happens next could be a test case for how the state and local communities should handle future ...