Community Voices: Energy transition, carbon capture and a more equitable future para todos
I am honored to serve as CEO of California Resources Corp. As a first-generation immigrant, I stand on the shoulders of civil rights pioneers like Dolores Huerta who created a path for Latinos like me to have a voice in this country and drive real change. I am proud to carry that legacy forward in […]
Kern County Employers’ Training Resource helping oil workers find a new career
California has been in constant effort to move towards clean air energy. The Employers’ Training Resource in Bakersfield, is starting a program to help oil & gas workers who have lost their jobs.
Gov. Newsom’s gas price proposal debated at special session legislative hearings
Oil companies say supply mandate is a bad regulation
California’s $2 billion problem: Can it prevent ‘eye-watering’ gas price spikes?
Are California’s high gas prices due to industry price gouging, or are they driven by high taxes and fees imposed by the state?
Commission advances one carbon project, postpones another
Convening two unprecedented public hearings on the same night turned out to have been overly ambitious.
Plan to build California’s first carbon removal and storage project gets a big boost
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A plan to build California’s first carbon storage facility received a big boost Thursday night.
Converting oil field into geothermal power production in Kern County
BAKERSFIELD. CALIF, (KERO) — Premier Resource Management is repurposing a legacy oil field into a clean and sustainable energy source.
Will special session prevent California gas price spikes? Gavin Newsom, lawmakers think so
Days after calling a special legislative session on gasoline supply, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Assembly lawmakers unveiled a bill the legislature could consider later this month, though it’s still unclear whether both chambers will meet in a special session.
Local oil field services operation plans 28 layoffs
More than two dozen local employees of a Texas-based oil field services company will be let go next month amid the continuing slowdown in Kern County crude production.
Fong pushes back on Newsom’s new mandates on oil refining
The Bakersfield Congressman argued that Newsom’s lates mandate on refiners was “taking a playbook from Vice President Kamala Harris – pushing terrible policies that make no economic sense.”