The oil field where the company plans to build its pilot, roughly an hour west of Bakersfield, is surrounded by a sea of large black oil pumps. Umbro notes that the new equipment will be low to ...

Anyone walking into the West Kern Oil Museum in Taft can get an eyeful of the people and activities that helped shape the ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif ... These wells are at the Fruitvale, McKittrick, Mount Poso and Mountain View oil fields in Kern County, and the Pyramid Hills oil field in Kings County, per state records.

Public review begins today on a set of revisions to Kern government's third attempt at a comprehensive environmental review ...

The fossil fuel industry has been a centerpiece of the Republican agenda for most of the modern era, but with the world moving faster than ever toward clean energy, no amount of U.S. strong-arming may ...