For more than a century, the Phillips 66 Los Angeles refinery, in Wilmington and Carson, has symbolized the legacy of the region’s oil industry – which, in many ways, built Southern California. The ...

Phillips 66 pleaded not guilty on Thursday, May 15, to federal charges that the Texas energy company of dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater from its Carson oil refinery into the Los ...

The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery, shown here in a Nov. 19, 2024, file photo, has now closed. What happens next could be a test case for how the state and local communities should handle future ...

California’s oil empire, it seems, is cracking, if not yet crumbling. The once-dominant industry, which in California dates back more than 150 years ago, has long been on the decline. Oil fields once ...