by Adam Mahoney | Sep 19, 2026 | California, Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism, extractive industries, Los Angeles, News, Oil Drilling, oil industry, Pollution, Public Health, Racial Justice, Reparations
As a child in the 1950s and ’60s, Regina Martin became so used to the oil pumpjacks near her home that she assumed every child lived beside them. Everyone was made “sick to [their] tummy” by the sulfurous, rotten-egg smell that never seemed to leave, she thought. Only until she was grown did she begin to see a possible connection between growing up on top of the nation’s largest urban oil…
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by Olivia Rosane | Mar 14, 2026 | Big Oil, California, Donald Trump, Iran, iran war, News, offshore drilling, Oil Drilling, oil spills, Trump Administration
State leaders and environmental advocates responded with outrage after the Trump administration on Friday ordered the restarting of a California pipeline that caused one of the largest oil spills in the state’s history, a move that comes as oil prices have skyrocketed following President Donald Trump’s launching of an illegal war against Iran and Iran’s subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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