Occupational health experts now believe it created a toxic mix that sickened thousands of locals—including some of the 47,000 people that worked in some capacity on BP’s cleanup operation—crippling them with chemically induced illnesses that doctors are unable to treat.
Low crude prices and the war in Yemen have sent a shock through the kingdom’s budget and forced it to revise its social contract even as it seeks to diversify its businesses.
ISIS militants had set the wells on fire hoping to obscure the view of Iraqi and coalition warplanes, but it didn’t stop Iraqi forces from driving them out of town in late August.
Homegrown fuels will help to insulate America from price shocks and foreign manipulation, all while protecting our environment.
Oklahoma’s oil and gas sector, one of the biggest in the country, is in bad shape. So bad that the state’s governor has called for divine intervention.
All it took was a pair of bolt cutters and the elbow grease of a few climate activists to carry out an audacious act of sabotage on North America’s massive oil and gas pipeline system.
A huge oil discovery in Alaska has put into stark relief the state’s battle over the government role in promoting fossil fuel exploration and financially supporting the energy industry.
Scientists have long said that climate change has made wildfires worse in the West — but how much worse? Twice as bad, according to a new study.
As the first deep freeze looms, many are bracing for a long fight as the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline races to finish the $3.7 billion project by January, and thousands of protesters tucked into tents, tepees and trailers in prairie camps vow to stop it.
We are nearing the beginning of what I’m calling the “second great electric-car extinction.”
