Was Los Angeles the first city to create the noxious, eye-stinging, smudgy haze? Weren’t other industrial cities spewing thick black smoke and creating smog centuries ago? As it turns out, it depends on what you consider “smog.”
Chevron said it has started production at a field offshore Central Africa more than a decade after oil and gas were discovered there.
Hoping to appease angry owners of VW diesel models, the German automaker is offering gift cards and several years of free roadside assistance. It’s just the latest twist in the VW scandal.
Concerned that cheating on vehicle emissions could be prevalent across the automobile industry, regulators in the United States and Canada are significantly expanding their on-the-road emissions tests to cover all makes and models of diesel cars.
The train that derailed north of Alma on Saturday morning dumped an estimated 18,500 gallons of ethanol into the Mississippi River, officials said Sunday, as work continued to monitor the spill, rerail cars and repair tracks, with plans to re-open the tracks Monday.
Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2014 and the relentless fuelling of climate change is endangering the planet for future generations, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday.
A former BP engineer accused of deleting text messages after the Gulf oil spill and ensuing investigation pleaded guilty Friday to lesser charges and avoided prison time.
A Tulsa-based pipeline company says about 1,000 barrels of crude oil has spilled from a pipeline in Noble County.
President Obama on Friday announced that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a flash point in the debate over his climate policies.
In 1985, Ian Taylor, today the chief executive of the world’s largest oil trader Vitol, was part of a team at Royal Dutch Shell that forecast oil prices would rise five fold to $125 a barrel in 2015 as global reserves were expected to become more scarce. Now he says it is unlikely to ever reach those levels again.
