Coastal Restoration

An increase in air-quality monitoring may result from a grand jury report on idle wells in Santa Barbara County.

Groundwater samples collected from irrigation, monitoring, and municipal supply wells near the Oxnard Oil Field were analyzed for chemical and isotopi…

Some say oil and gas exploration is essential as a source of jobs and revenue for Alaska Native communities, but activists argue it is simply exploitation.

The next chapter in the coronavirus-related oil crisis is now inevitable: Large parts of the petroleum industry are about to start shutting down.

The measure bars any California leasing authority from allowing pipelines or other oil and gas infrastructure to be built on state property.

What to do with an old oil platform along the California coast? Among the options: reconfiguring it for alternative energy production, turning it into a marine sanctuary, or severing the rig from the seafloor and removing it entirely.

Young activists wanted regulators to make oil and gas development contingent on protecting health and curbing climate change. Now they hope to change the law.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will depart the administration amid growing controversy over allegations that he violated ethics rules, President Trump announced Saturday.

The continuous oil leak from the 2004 Taylor Energy accident will be daunting to clean up, and stopping the leak is an even greater challenge.

Plastics and other petrochemical products will drive global oil demand to 2050, offsetting slower consumption of motor fuel, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed two bills that would block new offshore oil drilling in California by barring the construction of pipelines, piers, wharves or other infrastructure necessary to transport the oil and gas from federal waters to state land.

Rising energy prices, along with cost cutting, helped secure the soaring result at Europe’s largest energy company.

In the closing months of Trump term, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years.

A Southern California petroleum mogul whose enormous fortune was long suspected of being criminally derived was convicted in Utah federal court of fraud and money laundering.

Mother Nature took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was the surge up MR-GO and the missing marshes.

I've been getting several questions, so here is my quick update on oil & gas resources potentially impacted by the Maria Fire. This was as of 8:00m on th

T. Boone Pickens, legendary energy executive, philanthropist, ardent Oklahoma State University supporter and one of America's mos

Venezuela is a textbook case of the "resource curse," with nearly 90 percent of its population living in poverty in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves. After decades of leaders who failed to harness this commodity for peace and prosperity, it is questionable whether a new government can do a better job.

The gas rush is upending communities with traffic and noise, reshaping the way the state looks and sounds. Residents are often powerless to stop it.

The U.S., Russia and Saudi Arabia are churning out crude at record levels, causing global supply to significantly outstrip demand, the International Energy Agency said.

New York Atty. Gen. Barbara Underwood said Wednesday that Exxon courted investors such as the state's public pension funds with inaccurate information.

Industry officials say the measure would effectively ban most new drilling.