Drilling can proceed in a sensitive Alaskan reserve without an update to the government’s 2012 assessment of whether the oil and gas development would speed up climate change, and despite the fact that the assessment was completed four years before the oil at issue was discovered, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
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Chesapeake Energy, a shale drilling pioneer that helped to turn the United States into a global energy powerhouse, has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Read moreLandowners sued Permian Highway Pipeline and Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline in federal court, claiming they “pumped 36,000 gallons of drilling fluid containing at least seven different Class 1 probable human carcinogens into the aquifer near Blanco, Texas,” and refuse to clean it up.
Read moreOil and gas company E&B Natural Resources Management Corp. does not have a vested right to continue drilling at Livermore Oil Field, a federal court in California ruled. The company claimed Alameda County arbitrarily denied its permit to continue operating at the field because it “could” contaminate the aquifer.
Read moreThe Northern Alaska Environmental Center et al. sued the Department of the Interior in Anchorage Federal Court for failing to conduct environmental impact statement or environment assessments before offering leases to drill for oil on 3.9 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska.
Read moreTen years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling in deeper and deeper waters, where payoffs can be huge but risks are greater than ever.
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A decade after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a lack of safety protocols and inadequate government oversight has not reduced
Read moreA California appeals court upheld a ruling against advocacy groups challenging the state’s issuance of 213 permits to drill new oil wells in Kern county. The state Department of Conservation did not violate the California Environmental Quality Act, the court ruled, because the project approvals were ministerial and did not require an environmental review.
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Inside her greenhouse, Emilia Gomez bends down to see how her strawberries are faring following a difficult season with barely any water after her farm’s illegal well was shut down.
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Environmentalists on Wednesday updated their court battle to stop the sale of what they call “fatally flawed” oil and gas drilling leases at risk of causing a blowout or catastrophic oil spill.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. will no longer do business with coal companies and will restrict financing to companies that drill in the Arctic, the company said Tuesday.
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A California appeals court on Tuesday struck down a county ordinance that would have allowed the drilling of thousands of new oil wells.
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An appeals court ruled Thursday that the Norwegian government can hand out oil drilling licenses in the Arctic, dealing a second blow to environmental groups that had sued against further drilling in the Barents Sea.
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In the latest clash over environmental policy between the Golden State and federal government, California sued the Trump administration Friday over its plan to open over a million acres of the state’s public lands to oil and gas drilling.
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A battle playing out in a tiny Oregon town with no stoplights or cellphone service is pitting residents against one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
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The president of Cyprus says authorities are launching legal action at the International Court of Justice in the Hague against Turkey’s exploratory gas drilling inside Cypriot waters.
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An indictment unsealed by a Georgia federal judge charges Russian and Italian nationals, a U.S. citizen and several companies in a conspiracy to circumvent American trade sanctions by disguising the destination of drilling equipment.
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The Trump administration will consider a new management plan and expanded oil drilling for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, an Indiana-size area that former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called an “iconic place on our Earth.”
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Citing the need for enhanced studies on the environmental impacts caused by two popular oil and gas drilling techniques, California officials announced Tuesday the state is suspending new permits for fracking and high-pressure steam operations.
Read moreA Justice Department attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the government should be allowed to open warming Arctic waters to more drilling, claiming domestic oil and gas projects will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
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