Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst ...

Tuesday, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors penned a resolution opposing offshore oil and gas drilling, in the wake of ...

When an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico claimed the lives of 11 people, the incident was declared a tragedy. Now, with the rig at the bottom of the Gulf and thousands of gallons of oil ...

Democrats behind the proposal say they’re concerned about the future of federal protections currently in place for Lake Erie.

Tuesday, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors are set to pen a resolution in opposition to offshore drilling for oil and ...

Over the past decade, there have been at least a dozen major refinery explosions and fires in California — with the two most ...

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

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 ...

Energy executives have mostly heaped praise on President Donald Trump in public appearances, welcoming his removal of environmental restrictions on oil drilling and vows to open up more areas to ...

The massive oil spill spreading through the Gulf of Mexico is a horrific environmental disaster that could have a devastating effect on bird populations, marine life, and the coastal ecology. But, ...