{"id":219861,"date":"2026-03-14T19:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219861\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T19:26:10","slug":"trump-moves-to-revive-offshore-drilling-in-california-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/219861\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump moves to revive offshore drilling in California amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Citing oil market turmoil linked to the war with Iran,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:President Donald Trump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;President Donald Trump&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> President Donald Trump<\/a> on Friday invoked emergency powers to push the restart of a long\u2011disputed offshore oil operation off the California coast, prompting immediate pushback from California officials who say the order sidesteps courts and state regulators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/03\/adjusting-certain-delegations-under-the-defense-production-act\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:executive order;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;executive order&quot;}\" class=\"link \">executive order <\/a>signed on March 13, Trump expanded the Energy Department\u2019s authority under the Defense Production Act, a Cold War\u2011era law that gives the president broad power to direct industry in the name of national defense amid the ongoing conflict with Iran and rising gasoline prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Soon after, Energy Secretary Chris Wright ordered Houston\u2011based Sable Offshore Corp. to restore operations tied to the Santa Ynez Unit, a network of offshore platforms, pipelines and processing facilities along the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cToday\u2019s order will strengthen America\u2019s oil supply and restore a pipeline system vital to our national security and defense,\u201d Wright said, citing energy needs for West Coast military installations.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom, state leaders push back<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The order prompted an immediate response from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who accused Trump of exploiting an international crisis to revive a project that had been stalled for months in court and before state regulators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTrump knew his war with Iran would raise gas prices. Now he wants to illegally resurrect a pipeline shut down by courts and facing criminal charges,\u201d Newsom said on X. \u201cAnd it won\u2019t even cut prices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citing oil market turmoil linked to the war with Iran, President Donald Trump on Friday invoked emergency powers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,1595,9,8,13267,536,86820,19378,3290,13265,99258],"class_list":["post-219861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-coast","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chris-wright","tag-donald-trump","tag-gasoline-prices","tag-iran","tag-newsom","tag-offshore-oil","tag-war-with-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}