SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Chevron has agreed to pay more than $13 million in fines for dozens of past oil spills in California.
The California-based energy giant agreed to pay a $5.6 million fine associated with a 2019 oil spill in Kern County. The company has already paid to clean up that spill. This money will instead go toward the state Department of Conservation’s work of plugging old and orphaned wells.
