A similar measure was poised to pass the legislature last year but was killed in an 11th-hour move by the state's Legislative Black Caucus.

The case was opened Nov. 1, 2022, when petroleum byproduct was discovered in a dry creek bed at the Dryden oil lease facility in Fillmore.

Despite being the world’s fifth largest economy, California doesn't produce a pound of steel. That will soon change. This ...