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.

A KQED report put a fresh spotlight on what California’s independent oil producers, refiners, and energy workers have been warning about for years

CIPA members received welcome news this week when Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 982, the latest iteration of the so-called “polluters pay” campaign, failed to advance out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

California’s energy policy failures drew national attention in Washington last week when Congressman August Pfluger of Texas used a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing to press Energy Secretary Chris Wright on what he described as a looming energy crisis in California.