A sweeping proposal by the Trump administration to expand offshore oil and gas drilling could result in more than 4,000 oil ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

The rapidly expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico appears certain to be a huge environmental and economic disaster. News reports have detailed the peril for the fragile Louisiana wetlands, beaches ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday morning at the Wharfinger building in Eureka to hear from local and state leaders about how to fight offshore oil drilling on the California coast. Banners loudly ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. Trump administration plan would move oil drilling closer to Florida. Crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico after ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an ...

Oceana, an international organization focused on ocean conservation, has determined that if the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be ...

It’s back—the federal government’s push to expand offshore oil drilling. As the headline last month in the Long Island newspaper Newsday reported: “Plan for New Oil Drilling Off Fla. and Calif. Coasts ...