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 boom in new oil and gas and petrochemical facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast could lead to a sizable increase in climate change-causing carbon emissions, researchers at the University of Texas said in a new study.
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A consortium of conservation groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday to try and stop it from opening a million acres of public lands in Central California for oil and gas drilling.
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Russia did not give fair trials to the country’s former richest man and a second man who criticized President Putin, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA federal class action claims Kerr McGee Chemical Corp., Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Occidental Petroleum Corp., BNSF Railway Co. and International Paper Co. dumped toxic chemicals from creosote wood treatment processes for years across multiple states.
Read moreWildEarth Guardians claims Interior Secretary David Bernhardt approved 2,067 oil and gas leases in five Western states without proper environmental review, in federal court.
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Growing emissions from the U.S. oil and gas and petrochemical sectors could hinder some of the climate benefits from the nation’s fracking boom and transition away from coal in favor of natural gas, an environmental group said in a report released Wednesday.
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Citing possible health risks and a lack of oversight by a Virginia regulatory agency, the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday vacated the permit authorizing a compressor station for a natural gas pipeline that has faced numerous setbacks in the same court.
Read moreA federal judge granted ExxonMobil summary judgment against the U.S. Treasury Department’s $2 million fine, for allegedly violating Ukraine-related sanctions regulations.
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The price of oil surged Friday as global investors were gripped with uncertainty over the repercussions after the United States killed Iran’s top general.
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The leaders of Greece, Israel and Cyprus met in Athens on Thursday to sign a deal for an undersea pipeline that would carry gas from new offshore deposits in the southeastern Mediterranean to continental Europe.
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In line with a recent deal for Moscow to supply Europe with gas through Ukraine for at least five years, Russian energy company Gazprom announced Friday that it paid $2.9 billion to Ukraine’s state-owned oil company Naftogaz.
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Business activity in large swaths of the U.S. oil industry continued a downward trend in the fourth quarter even as the amount of fossil fuels pulled from the ground grew for the 13th quarter in a row, according to a new survey of energy executives released Friday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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Japan on Friday approved a contentious plan to send naval troops to the Middle East to ensure the safety of Japanese ships bringing oil to the energy-poor country that depends heavily on imports from the region.
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The Galapagos Islands’ unique wildlife was spared after a barge carrying 600 gallons of diesel fuel sank, causing a spill, the Ecuador government told AFP Monday.
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Indigenous groups told judges in Canada that the government had not adequately consulted them about a proposed oil pipeline that they say could threaten their drinking water and harm endangered Southern Resident killer whales, which the groups hold sacred.
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The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will open 1.2 million acres in California to fracking, ending a five-year moratorium on the controversial method of oil and gas extraction in the Golden State.
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