Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Today marks one year since an oil pipeline ruptured near Refugio Beach in Santa Barbara County, spilling 143,000 gallons of crude oil along the coast. This week, KCRW is checking in with biologists, ...

The recent decline in gasoline prices is primarily attributed to surging global oil supply, softer-than-expected demand, and swelling oil inventories, rather than the pro-energy policies of any single ...

The US produced a record-high 13.6 million barrels per day of crude oil in July as global stockpiles rose and onshore rig ...

In a bid to stabilize struggling crude-oil refineries, state lawmakers on Saturday passed a last-minute bill that would allow the construction of 2,000 new oil wells annually in the San Joaquin Valley ...