The environmental implications of the oil spill were so enormous at the time that it was easy to forget that 11 men died on the rig before it went down. “Deepwater Horizon” does the service of remembering them while implicating the greed and carelessness that put them in harm’s way.
The Paris climate agreement, the world’s strongest effort yet to try to curb the pace of climate change, sped even closer toward becoming active as India, the planet’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, formally joined the accord Sunday.
Shuttle diplomacy by the United States’ envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition brokered an oil deal between Iraq and its Kurdish region vital to a climactic battle with the jihadists, diplomats, officials and oil men say.
After it was discovered in September 2015 that Volkswagen doctored its cars’ diesel engines to give false readings in emissions tests — a costly mistake known as the Dieselgate scandal — the company had no choice but to thoroughly change its strategy. And change it it did.
A Nigerian militant group claimed an attack on Thursday on a crude pipeline operated by state oil firm NNPC in the Niger Delta.
There was so much misinformation in the Sept. 25 commentary “The Renewable Fuel Standard Failure,” written by a former chief economist at the American Petroleum Institute, I don’t even know where to begin.
U.S. oil drilling has seen its best quarter since crude prices tumbled two years ago mainly due to small operators returning to the well pad, but analysts say the continued recovery in the rig count depends on whether OPEC’s output reduction plan can bring the market back to $50 a barrel.
This week OPEC’s Lucy finally let oil’s Charlie Brown enjoy a solid kick.
A newly-published study by MIT researchers shows that when operating and maintenance costs are included in a vehicle’s price, autos emitting less carbon are among the market’s least expensive options, on a per-mile basis.
OPEC agreed on Wednesday to cut its oil output for the first time since 2008, with the group’s leader Saudi Arabia softening its stance on arch-rival Iran amid mounting pressure from low oil prices.
