California asks court to order Trump-backed oil company to remove pipeline on state land

California continues to fight the Trump administration after it defied state officials to restart oil drilling off the Santa Barbara coast in the name of national security. State officials call it trespassing and are asking a federal judge Monday to order a Texas firm to stop using a pipeline that runs through state park land. The pipeline system had been idle since one of its pipelines ruptured in 2015 and caused one of California’s worst oil spills before the Trump administration last month invoked emergency powers and directed Sable Offshore Corp. to restart the operation. It is the latest salvo in an escalating legal battle that is testing how far states have the right to challenge Washington’s wishes. Sable says it has the proper permits.