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 ...
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 ...