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Offshore oil and gas drilling has been a contentious issue in California for 50 years, ever since a rig ruptured and spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil off the Santa Barbara coast in 1969. related Today it’s spurring a new debate: whether to completely dismantle 27 oil and gas platforms scattered along the … Continue reading Retired Oil Rigs Off California Coast Could Be Reborn As Artificial Reefs →

One crew member was found dead, and 31 others are missing as of Monday. Rescue efforts are hampered by bad weather. The environmental impact of the crash was not immediately clear.

A high surf warning for parts of Northern California said waves would range from 28 to 33 feet and up to 40 feet at some locations, the National Weather Service said.

Converting decommissioned oil and gas platforms off the California coast into artificial reefs could serve as a model for decommissioning some of the 7,500 other offshore platforms operating around the world.

The 2020 Oregon legislative session is effectively over, with very little show after an acrimonious dispute between lawmakers.

NPR Music celebrates the alt-rock heroes, Hollywood idols, Pulitzer-winning composers, jazz luminaries, cult legends, bold activists, old masters and rising stars the world lost this year.

Over the course of three days, lawmakers passed 22 bills dealing with police accountability, coronavirus relief, and much more.

Sally is now forecast to fall just short of being a Category 3 hurricane. But flooding poses a huge threat: "Slow movement means more rain," National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham says.

Ernesto became a hurricane again as it churned away from Bermuda and headed further out in the northeastern Atlantic, sending powerful swells toward the U.S. East Coast.

The attorney general was in Atlanta to promote a new crime-fighting agenda, but much of the attention was on the president's comment that police shouldn't be "too nice" to suspects in custody.