If you're shopping at Toys "R" Us or dining at Olive Garden in commercial minefield Times Square, we're guessing environmentalist concerns are the las...
Susan Buchanan | Posted 04.18.2012
Congressional delegates from Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states hope the bipartisan RESTORE Act will be passed soon and before a possible BP settlement with the feds so that BP fines go to coastal states and not Washington's coffers.
IndustryWeek | Posted 09.13.2011
China said Wednesday it had ordered ConocoPhillips to immediately stop operations at several rigs in an area off the nation's eastern coast polluted b...
AP | Posted 08.10.2011
HOUSTON -- The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by one this week to 1,855. Houston-based drilling product p...
Johann Hari | Posted 07.25.2011
Ecuador's government says that if the rest of the world offers just half of what the oil beneath their rainforest is worth -- $3.5 billion -- they will keep the rainforest standing and alive and working for us all.
nytimes.com | ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 05.25.2011
There's nothing left of this well but salvaged components and a tangle of steel on the sea floor that will be the subject of investigations and litiga...
Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Rep. Edward Markey says BP's disaster response plan for an oil spill doesn't mention hurricanes or tropical storms. Markey says the...
Posted 05.25.2011
GRAND ISLE, La. (AP)-- Rough seas generated by Hurricane Alex pushed more oil from the massive spill onto Gulf coast beaches as cleanup vessels were s...
Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang | Posted 05.25.2011
United States action on global warming is long overdue. But energy industry lobbyists and their Senate allies have thwarted the best efforts of three ...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.25.2011
MORGAN CITY, La. — Mr. Charlie has seen the up and downs over the years in the oil patch off Louisiana's coast, but this could be the toughest s...
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
At the heart of the Christian tradition lies the belief that transformation requires sacrifice. Deep and abiding change is hard. But the BP leak is only the latest sign that our society must do exactly that.
Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011
Unlike many of my colleagues, I was not all that surprised by President Obama's announcement that he will open up specific locations to offshore drill...
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011
While many are calling the Gulf oil spill an "unprecedented disaster,' the causes of the disaster are not unique, as oil developments around the world...
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing to split up an Interior Department agency that oversees offshore drilling, as part of its res...
Paul McRandle | Posted 05.25.2011
"Ocean sprawl" is a combination of offshore oil rigs, shipping lanes, wind farms and ever more ocean uses--and it puts increased pressure on ocean and coastal resources already under enormous strain.
Sarah Chasis | Posted 05.25.2011
Dozens of scientific studies show that fully protected marine reserves have more and bigger fish than similar habitats that are fished, which makes them highly productive.
David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011
This is one of those weird situations where I'd feel better about a McCain presidency if I believed the senator was simply lying, but I think his brain filter is just that good.
Posted 03.07.2012