On Our Radar: California's Runaway Gasoline Prices As gasoline prices head toward $5 a gallon in California, Gov. Jerry Brown tells state regulators to relax smog controls so oil refineries can increase supplies of cheaper fuel. Meanwhile, police officers are contending with scattered cases of fuel theft from filling stations. Bloomberg News, The Los Angeles Times The Department of Energy fines a nuclear research lab in Idaho for safety violations that exposed workers to radioactive contamination last year. A look at how scientists and engineers at the United States Naval Research Laboratory propose to turn seawater into fuel for warships so they can refuel at sea. The big question is whether the effort could be scaled up to levels that are economically practical. Gizmag Oregon's governor bans bonfires and campfires as the state struggles with wildfires linked to a run of unusually dry weather. Q13Fox Marathon Petroleum will buy BP's sprawling Texas City refinery and nearby pipelines and terminals for $598 million and its inventory of oil and petroleum for $1.2 billion. BP been trying to sell refining and other assets to help cover costs associated with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.