Forty years of environmental neglect by an oil company led to a stunning $63 million verdict in Santa Maria this week

Forty years of environmental neglect by an oil company led to a stunning $63 million verdict in Santa Maria this week, as a retired Santa Barbara mathematician gained global notice with frightening new calculations about climate change, two local news scoops that Nick Welsh and Josh Molina discuss with the genial host on a new episode of Newsmakers TV. Plus: an 11th hour push to rescue local control over development from state government, a new day for ambulance services in the county, a horrible spike in fentanyl-related overdose deaths and SB council member Oscar Gutierrez is having a moment.