The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore drilling, including areas ...

A person fishes with the offshore oil and gas platform Esther in the distance on Jan. 5 in Seal Beach, Calif. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) As part of a last-minute effort to safeguard his environmental ...

President Biden has blocked new offshore drilling for oil and gas in several parts of the country about two weeks before President-elect Trump takes office. Biden has announced he’ll block new ...

Environmental justice organisations The Green Connection and Natural Justice are opposing a proposal by TotalEnergies EP South Africa to drill what could be the world’s deepest offshore well, off the ...

When the corroded pipeline burst in 2015, inky crude spread along the Southern California coast, becoming the state’s worst ...

Rigs drilling beneath the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico will drive U.S. oil industry growth this year and next as onshore ...

Brazil’s government has approved exploratory drilling by state-run oil-giant Petrobras near the mouth of the Amazon River.

Despite a friendly posture towards the oil and gas industry, Trump also moved to ban offshore drilling while president. After proposing a major expansion in offshore drilling early in his first term, ...

President Biden announced an 11th-hour executive action on Monday that bans new drilling and further oil and natural gas development on more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal and offshore waters.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California lawmakers introduced a last-minute deal that would streamline environmental approvals for up to 2,000 ...

President Biden is using a decades-old law to block drilling for oil in more than 625 million acres of U.S. ocean — the largest region a president has ever protected using this authority. It's a move ...