The Times-Picayune of New Orleans weighed in on its editorial page Friday on those who are using the explosion on a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico to push for an...
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Salazar voices doubt about proposed Arctic drilling
Reuters - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday he cannot predict whether Royal Dutch Shell, which has invested $3.5 billion in an offshore Arctic oil-development...
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Brazil Oil Co Petrobras sells $64 billion of stock to fund oil exploration
AFP - Brazil's Petrobras unveiled one of the world's biggest share offerings Friday, a sale of up to 64 billion dollars in new stock to finance oil exploration...
BP: Failed blowout preventer removed from well
BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon.
Shipping companies eye fabled Asia route as ice melts
AFP - Shipowners are showing growing interest in a fabled trade route to Asia which climate change is beginning to open up at last as polar ice recedes.
Mariner opposed federal safety rule
AP - The company whose Gulf of Mexico oil platform erupted in flames this week cited the industry's "excellent safety record" when it opposed a proposed...
Consumer Federation of America calls for 60 mpg CAFE standard by 2025
Now that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Environmental Protection Agency have established fleet fuel economy standards of 35.5 miles per gallon by...
Will Carter's Solar Panels Return To The White House?
Environmentalist Bill McKibben went on Letterman to describe the effort he is leading to pressure President Obama to re-install solar panels on the White House. The group...
Facebook reacts to Greenpeace anti-coal campaign
Facebook gets flak from Greenpeace over its planned giant data center in Oregan, but Facebook says its efficiency will be industry-leading.
BP: Spill costs have hit $8 billion
Reuters - BP Plc said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen to $8 billion as the oil giant prepared to release the findings of an internal...
Coast Guard: No sign of oil after Gulf platform fire
Reuters - An oil and gas platform operated by Mariner Energy burst into flames in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, but the crew of 13 escaped and there were no signs of an...
Billionaire Koch brothers back suspension of California climate law
A company owned by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch has contributed $1 million to Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California’s...
Tesla Roadster eligible for $38,000 clean energy rebate in Japan
Less than four months ago, Tesla Motors entered the Japanese market by shipping a dozen or so right-hand drive Signature Series Roadster
Fuel tanker runs aground in Canadian Arctic
by Agence France-Presse.OTTAWA-A fuel tanker has run aground in Canada's farnorth, carrying 2.4 million gallons of diesel fuel that risk spilling into theArctic...
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ConocoPhillips suspends Arctic drilling plans
The oil company cited regulatory uncertainties in announcing that it would not drill in Alaskan waters in 2014.
Arctic oil drilling begins in Chukchi Sea
On 9 September, oil company Shell began drilling off the coast of Alaska in what is the first offshore exploratory arctic drilling in the Chukchi Sea for more than 20 years.
Exxon makes major oil discovery in Gulf
Exxon Mobil said Wednesday it has discovered an estimated 700 million barrels of oil equivalent at a deepwater well off the Louisiana coast, a major find that a top House...
Obama: Let's drill more in the Gulf, Alaska (on and offshore), maybe even Atlantic seaboard
President Barack Obama is looking to bolster U.S. oil drilling, announcing Saturday a preemptive strike against bolder efforts from Capitol Hill as consumer unrest deepens...
More Coverage: The New York Times
Salazar: No BP, Interior drilling deal
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar emphatically said on Monday that there is no deal or special talks with BP regarding the company’s efforts to resume drilling projects in...
Oil drilling to resume in the gulf’s deep waters
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department said Monday that it had approved the first new deepwater drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP explosion and spill last...
More Coverage: The Hill's E2 Wire
Gulf oil rig operator Seahawk Drilling seeks bankruptcy, to sell assets to competitor
Seahawk Drilling Inc. plans to sell its fleet of offshore oil rigs, boats and other equipment to a competitor for $105 million as part of a bankruptcy filing.Houston-based...
Vitter: Obama is 'attacking traditional energy'
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is accusing the Obama administration of "leading with ideology and politics" instead of science on the deepwater oil drilling...
WWF urges caution on BP, Rosneft Arctic drilling
OSLO (Reuters) - The WWF conservation group urged Russia on Tuesday to limit any new oil drilling in the Russian Arctic until cleaner technology was available, saying a...
EPA board stops Shell's clean air permits, halting Arctic drilling plans
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Native and conservation groups have succeeded in challenging clean air permits granted to Shell Oil to drill exploration wells in the...
Drilling review out of spending bill
A plan approved by the Senate and House to continue federal spending until March does not contain a controversial provision tripling a 30-day mandatory federal review...
Deep sea oil drilling ban rejected by European nations
OSLO, Norway - Oil-producing countries on Thursday rejected a German proposal for a moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Northeast Atlantic that reflected...
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