More than 500,000 Los Angeles County residents live within a half-mile of an active oil well. Activists and community groups ...

LOS ANGELES— A judge approved an agreement today to end litigation over approvals for 17 new oil and gas wells, some near homes and schools, in Los Angeles and Kern counties. The agreement comes after ...

A Times climate reporter reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster. Letter to Los AngeleS A Times ... you notice the oil wells, those nodding donkeys pumping grease out ...

Standing on a Los Angeles soccer field with oil wells pumping behind him ... in our state," said Assemblyman Isaac Bryan (D-Culver City), who wrote the bill. “Production in recent years has ...

In 2015 the groups sued the city of Los Angeles for rubber-stamping oil projects in communities ... Newsom to protect our health and climate by stopping new permits for oil and gas wells and ending ...

27, 2023. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Community members and advocacy groups knew oil and gas wells emit some of the pollutants that have been associated with higher rates ...

As natural disasters get supercharged by climate change, the companies most responsible should chip in to cover the damage.