The rapidly expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico appears certain to be a huge environmental and economic disaster. News reports have detailed the peril for the fragile Louisiana wetlands, beaches ...

The federal government’s push to expand offshore oil drilling is back. The waters off Long Island are not part of the plan, ...

Just 20 days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had exploded, killing 11 people and igniting one of the worst environmental disasters in modern history. A pelican and a Northern gannet were the ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

An offshore wind developer says the Trump administration is limiting future power supply as AI gobbles up more electricity.

A panoramic view of Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County, California on May 19, 2025 (Sam Ribakoff/CNS). SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (CN) — Set among rolling hills and dotted by palm trees and ...

The Solana Beach City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Dec. 10 in opposition to new offshore drilling, following a proposed Trump administration plan to issue new drilling leases off ...

Oceana, an international organization focused on ocean conservation, has determined that if the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be ...

BP has criticized the new "Deepwater Horizon" film as being an inaccurate Hollywood dramatization of the deadly oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. "The Deepwater Horizon movie is ...

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The Ocean Ranger disaster remains one of the most significant tragedies in the history of the offshore oil industry. Once hailed as the world’s largest semisubmersible oil rig and considered nearly ...