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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A major environmental victory unfolded in Florida when Governor Ron DeSantis signed groundbreaking legislation protecting one of the state’s most vital waterways from oil exploration. House Bill 1143, ...

In January, we wrote a Guest Commentary piece in response to President Joe Biden’s action to protect 625 million acres of U.S. federal waters, which asked the question: is the coast finally clear? The ...

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, ...