For two months, the Malta-flagged oil tanker Alkimos has been quietly floating off the Gulf Coast of Texas, undisturbed by the high-stakes legal fight playing out in a federal courtroom as a result of American sanctions on Venezuela.
Read moreMinnesota has joined a growing group of states suing oil-industry titans for deceiving the public about their contributions to climate change in sweeping fraud cases.
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Environmentalists have asked the Trump administration to reconsider a recent decision to allow the construction of an 800-mile pipeline that will make it easier to export liquified natural gas to Asia.
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On the campaign trail a year before his election, Donald Trump boasted in a radio interview that his real estate holdings in Istanbul could influence U.S.-Turkish foreign policy as president.
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The federal government’s cancellation of an oil and gas lease on land in Montana that is sacred to the Blackfeet Tribe survived scrutiny by the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday.
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.
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A new rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency just made it a lot easier for the federal government to override the will of states and tribes who might object to the construction of oil and gas pipelines in their own backyards.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday denied a request from the Trump administration to revive a permit program for oil and gas pipelines, serving yet another blow to the feds in a legal battle that originated with the long-disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Read moreCalifornia regulators on Thursday approved Pacific Gas and Electric’s plan for exiting Chapter 11 bankruptcy as the company fought in federal court to block a set of strict new probation terms aimed at preventing wildfires.
Read moreChallenges piled up Wednesday over federal approval of a proposed natural gas pipeline and export terminal. Oregon questioned the pipeline company’s assertion that the federal government can override state regulation under the Clean Water Act, while environmentalists sued in the D.C. Court of Appeals.
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A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday ordered a federal judge to reconsider if he had proper jurisdiction over two lawsuits seeking to hold the world’s five biggest oil companies liable for climate change when he dismissed them in 2018.
Read moreU.S. Senator Ron Wyden vowed Friday to fight the Canadian company behind a proposed liquified natural gas export terminal as it begins to try to take the land of locals who oppose Jordan Cove.
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An attorney for a trust linked to Venezuela’s state-owned oil company asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to reinstate its antitrust and racketeering complaint accusing international energy trading firms of cheating the company out of billions through a bribery conspiracy.
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Russia has become one of the world’s worst-hit countries by the pandemic, with the number of confirmed coronavirus cases second only to the United States.
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Few Alaska Natives in the Arctic Circle have reliable cellphone service, let alone internet access. And many say the Trump administration is using that — and the Covid-19 pandemic — to keep them from voicing their disapproval of mining and drilling projects that will destroy their way of life.
Read moreAs America gradually reopens, Wall Street is hopeful retailers can successfully navigate snags in supply chains and other problems.
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