A recent report highlighted growing concern that California’s fuel supply is becoming increasingly fragile, with warnings that the state’s already tight petroleum system could face added strain heading into the summer driving season.

After a long and politically difficult hearing last Monday night, CIPA’s sponsored bill, AB 2716 by Assembly Member Anamarie Avila Farias that fixes the broken bonding requirements for acquisitions of oil assets, passed out of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

A new letter from members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus should get Sacramento’s attention

Last week, the California Air Resources Board released revised 15-day amendments to its Cap-and-Invest regulation package, and while CARB is advertising the changes as near-term relief for refiners and electricity ratepayers, the agency once again left California’s in-state crude producers out in the cold.

President Donald Trump on Monday issued a sweeping presidential determination aimed at boosting domestic petroleum production, refining, and logistics capacity, marking a significant escalation of the national energy emergency he first identified in early 2025.