Trump officials back firm in fight over California offshore oil drilling after huge spill - One of California’s worst oil ...

Cleanup workers try to scoop up all the toxic globs on Pensacola Beach from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill. Now BP is back with a new deep water drilling plan. (Photo via Florida Sea Grant) How ...

Dear EarthTalk: Given the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last month, isn't it high time the government put a stop to offshore oil drilling once and for all? Short of banning it altogether, what ...

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed Tuesday, saying the government simply ...

Re: “A second oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge draws no bids” (Jan. 8, Business): The cancellation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lease sale due to zero bids ...

Politics has washed up on North Carolina’s coastline as President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for reversal of permanent protections of a broad swatch of area, including the ...

WASHINGTON – Over the din of beating tom-toms, surrounded by activists wearing antlers and dressed as polar and grizzly bears, Senator Clinton yesterday dismissed high gas prices and the destruction ...

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Politics has washed up on North Carolina’s coastline as President Donald Trump issued ...