The Newsom administration has gone to court to stop an offshore oil company that is moving crude oil through a pipeline that crosses state park land over the objections of California officials.
What happened: California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and the State Parks agency on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Sable Offshore Corp. in Santa Barbara Superior Court. They are asking a judge to order the company to stop flowing oil through state park property and remove its pipeline.
In court filings, Bonta claimed Sable restarted its pipeline without State Parks permission, “and is therefore trespassing on State Parks’ property.”
Why it matters: The suit broadens California’s response to the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to invoke its national defense emergency powers to order Sable to begin operations. On Monday, Bonta filed a motion in a separate legal proceeding asking a federal judge to stop Sable from operating its pipeline.
