Refugio State Beach, a protected state beach park in Santa Barbara County, is closed indefinitely due to major storm damage, officials announced this week. The California State Parks-owned beach ...

P lains All American Pipeline (NASDAQ:PAA) has agreed to pay $72.5M to settle a lawsuit over the 2015 Refugio Beach oil spill in Santa Barbara, according to a filing Tuesday from the California ...

Five brush fires were reported “just north of Refugio,” around 1:35 p.m. on Monday, triggering a “full response” from Santa Barbara County Fire, according to spokesperson Scott Safechuck. The fires ...

Plains All American Pipeline caused California’s worst coastal oil spill in 25 years — and now it thinks it deserves a chance to spill again. In 2015 Plains’ severely corroded oil pipeline broke near ...

A Texas-based oil company announced to investors today that the California Office of the State Fire Marshal ... ruptured and released about 450,000 gallons of oil near Refugio State Beach. The state ...