An Oil Company Running Into Rough Waters off the California Coast Is Looking to Trump for Help

Inside Climate News · By Blanca Begert · last updated November 11, 2025 – 1:46 PM

A vote to deny Sable Offshore permits to restart production builds on a series of lawsuits and an accusation of insider trading, but the CEO wants the president to help it overcome its setbacks.

By Blanca Begert

President Donald Trump may announce his plan to open California waters to oil drilling as soon as this week. The move, if it goes through, could bring about the first federal oil lease sales in the Pacific Ocean since 1984.

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