Kern County, California feels as far from the Pacific coast as Iowa. Squint past the palm trees and foothills, and it resembles the Great Plains. From Mr McCoy’s vantage point, the horizon is littered ...

‘Nodding donkeys’, or pumpjacks, drive the deep, underground pumps in California’s densest oil field. Andrew took this photograph ... two billion barrels of oil have been produced at Kern River, the ...

In another big step for Kern's nascent carbon management industry ... of carbon dioxide more than a mile below the Elk Hills Oil Field for the purpose of addressing climate change.