California’s governor is moving ahead with a plan that could make it harder for offshore oil projects to restart. A new ...

According to KSBY News, a federal court allowed the Environmental Defense Center to join Santa Barbara County in defending its decision to block the transfer of oil permits from ExxonMobil to Sable ...

Environmentalists have rung the alarm about ocean drilling provisions in the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” While public outrage and political interests led Republicans to scrap plans to ...

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

WASHINGTON, April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- April 20 marks the 15th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which remains the worst oil spill in U.S. history. An analysis released by Oceana ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — Environmental groups petitioned the federal government Monday, hoping to bar energy companies that neglect old well sites from obtaining new offshore drilling rights. "The federal ...

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 ...

Losing his father has shaped Shane Gorman's life, inspiring him to follow him in trying to make the industry safer.

(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration is poised to relax offshore drilling requirements imposed in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 people in 2010 and unleashed the worst ...

Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley has a long record in the energy industry. Democrats see it as a ...

Gov't agency collected just $21 mil in fines over 20 years from giant industry. June 24, 2010— -- President Obama has all but guaranteed that a catastrophe like BP's oil spill in the Gulf of ...

Politics has washed up on North Carolina’s coastline as President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for reversal of permanent protections of a broad swatch of area, including the ...