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The Hunt Amendment would allow the use of eminent domain to seize land needed for Sable Offshore Corporation's oil production in Santa Barbara County.

The plan could increase daily oil production from the Platform Gilda to 4,000 barrels a day, up from 1,100.

The company continues to restart more of its offshore oil wells.

Congressman Salud Carbajal and Sen. Adam Schiff want to see correspondence between Sable Offshore Corporation and the federal government.

Sable Offshore Corporation has a deal to sell 20,000 barrels of oil a day to Chevron. The firm announced it will be moving 50,000 barrels a day by April 1.

The White House intervened in the controversy over its restart, invoking a 1950s-era law intended to help the country during a crisis.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta calls the federal action an attempt to circumvent the state.

State Fish and Wildlife officials say about 420 gallons of oil spilled from a facility in the mountains north of Santa Paula.

Santa Barbara County Supervisors voted to start action to reject the transfer of county permits for the facilities.

Sable Offshore Corporation said it hopes to have the pipeline back in operation this summer. It's already reactivated some oil wells off the Santa Barbara County coastline.