Last week, the California Independent Petroleum Association formally responded to CARB’s revised Cap-and-Invest amendment package, and the message was direct: the proposal is not workable, not coherent, and not aligned with California’s own stated goals.

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.

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.

California’s fight over development near idle and abandoned oil wells is too often framed as if mere proximity equals danger.