Oil

Democrats are asking a government watchdog to investigate how prepared the U.S. would be for another major oil spill.

The Termit and Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve covers an area three times the size of Belgium and contains numerous endangered species.

The Waorani community in Ecuador won a historic ruling that may create a new guide for other indigenous communities looking to protect their lands from oil interests.

It's politically unpopular and mostly unnecessary to match our energy needs. But the president remains adamant about expanding oceanic oil and gas exploration.

Linda Garcia is set to receive this year's Goldman Environmental prize for keeping an oil-by-rail terminal our of her Washington neighborhood.

Plains All American, the company responsible for the spill, said the fine would not damage the $17 billion company's bottom line.

Instead of one damaged wellhead, a mudslide would leave a tangled mess of pipes buried under a giant mass of sediments.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa sent the country into turmoil after doubling oil prices just before flying off to Russia.

Already the largest oil and gas producer in the world, the United States is expected to ramp up oil production more than any other nation in the coming decades.

The country is offering more than 20,000 miles of untouched ocean in the Mozambique Channel for future oil exploration.

Northwest Innovation Works promises to bring jobs to rural Washington—but at what cost?

Oil companies have contributed $8 million to fight against Measure G, a ballot measure in San Luis Obispo County that would block the expansion of local oil operations.

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.

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced a plan to block offshore drilling off the state's coast on Monday.

Preliminary estimates of the damage are just coming in.

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.

On the making of our feature story concerning the deadly business of building oil and gas pipelines.

In California's Central Valley, the oil industry has been dumping wastewater into unlined—and under-regulated—ponds, threatening the state's limited groundwater and the humans who rely on it.

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a first-of-its-kind investigation into the hazards of the pipeline industry to a feature on the sinking island of Tangier.

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An investigation into the deadly business of building oil and gas pipelines.

Members and backers of the Trump administration are profiting from DAPL while scheming to make even bigger bucks shipping oil and petrochemicals overseas.

How we uncovered the numbers behind pipeline construction fatalities.