Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on Tuesday announced the approval of the first offshore oil production facility in federal waters off the coast of Alaska.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced a plan to block offshore drilling off the state's coast on Monday.
Though this hurricane will likely only hit the oil industry with a glancing blow, the industry won't always be able to weather the storm.
But even as environmentalists celebrate the decommissioning of Platform Holly, they remind state officials and residents that California remains an oil state.
Governor Phil Murphy's swiftness in moving to protect New Jersey's shores from oil exploration is the result of plans by the Trump administration to expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and the Pacific.
The decision would remove protections for up 100 million acres of water, some of which have been closed to drilling for three decades.
Governor Terry McAuliffe joins hundreds of city, state, and federal officials in formally opposing the expansion of drilling off their coasts.
Congress gets an F for stalling the implementation of new safety regulations.
Rapidly advancing technologies are opening up astonishing sources of oil and gas all over the world. We are entering a new era of fossil fuels that is reshaping global economics and politics—and the planet.
Biogeochemist Molly Redmond discusses the state of the Gulf of Mexico a year after the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill, looking at what's still unknown and how some lucky breaks kept damage from being even worse.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going — even if their activity is counterproductive or just for show.
Fear of unemployment leads places blighted by oil or coal to hold on all the tighter to those industries.
A tenuous compromise that promised to move a U.S. climate bill forward may be part of the Deepwater Horizon’s collateral damage.
Before the U.S. responds to "drill, baby, drill" campaign rhetoric with more offshore energy exploration, it should revise Reagan-era leasing and royalty rules that cost the Treasury billions.
Innovation, and not just drilling the same well deeper, could make energy in America as common, as, well, salt.
The nation's energy system got off easy from Hurricane Ike. There's no guarantee that will be true from future storms.
Only a fool would support expanded domestic exploration — offshore or elsewhere — under the Bush administration's dysfunctional energy policies. Here's how those policies need to change for America to responsibly find the energy it needs.