All the headlines from our Oil Gas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 14 2020 // Toxic and invisible oil spread well beyond the known satellite footprint of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a new study.Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel school of Marine and...
Feb 10 2020 // An environmental nonprofit has released an analysis of first-of-its-kind air monitoring data that shows benzene levels at 10 U.S. petroleum refineries exceeded limitsEight years ago, two environmental nonprofits sued the...
Feb 6 2020 // Chesapeake Energy Corp. and three oilfield service firms were sued by the daughter of a worker who suffered fatal injuries when a Texas oil well exploded in flames in late January.The wrongful death suit seeks at least $1...
Feb 5 2020 // A third worker has died of injuries from a Central Texas oil well blowout, the company said.Chesapeake Energy spokesman Gordon Pennoyer said in a statement the company is “deeply saddened” by the worker’s...
Feb 3 2020 // A second worker has died of injuries from a Central Texas oil well blowout, the company said.Chesapeake Energy spokesman Gordon Pennoyer said the worker died Thursday evening at a hospital. Another worker was killed in...
Jan 31 2020 // One person was killed and three others were injured on Jan. 29 in the blowout of a Central Texas oil well.All four were contractors working at a Chesapeake Energy well site on a county road near Deanville, Texas, 28 miles...
Jan 28 2020 // Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.The legal challenge is the...
Jan 27 2020 // The wrongful death trial against an oilfield equipment contractor in connection with an explosion and fire last year that killed five men in southeastern Oklahoma began in mid-January.Attorneys for the families of Parker...
Jan 24 2020 // Exxon Mobil dodged a bullet last month when a judge rejected a novel climate-change lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general. The case began with a promise from state officials that there would be a historic...
Jan 20 2020 // Climate change should be addressed by Congress and the electorate, not the courts, a federal appeals panel ruled in ending a lawsuit brought on behalf of young people who sought to force the government to draw up a plan to...
Jan 17 2020 // The wrongful death trial against a oilfield equipment contractor in connection with a January 2018 explosion and fire that killed five men in southeastern Oklahoma is underway.The McAlester News-Capital reports that...
Jan 9 2020 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an aggressive climate change-fighting campaign for his state that includes a $3-billion bond act that would be put on the ballot this November.Cuomo, who says that money would go to...
Jan 9 2020 // The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a plan to speed permitting for major infrastructure projects like oil pipelines, including by dropping consideration of their potential impact on climate change.The plan,...
Jan 2 2020 // Three people were hurt in an explosion at a South Dakota petroleum distributor on Dec. 30, the company’s co-owner said.The explosion happened around 2 p.m. in the truck maintenance shop of Harms Oil just west of...
Dec 23 2019 // The Hartford became the latest insurance carrier to cut back on business it does with the fossil fuel industry out of concern over climate change.The company announced it will no longer insure or invest in companies that...
Dec 17 2019 // An oil tanker was attacked on Sunday in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea and most of its crew were kidnapped, the latest in a string of incidents highlighting the security risks to shipping in the region.The vessel...
Dec 12 2019 // Faced with imminent new global marine pollution rules, shipping companies and insurers are puzzling over the risks.To reduce emissions of toxic sulfur that cause premature deaths, shipowners who have long relied on the...
Dec 11 2019 // A new wave of lawsuits against BP is hitting the federal courts nearly a decade after the Gulf oil spill.The new litigation is the result of a court ruling that blocks thousands of people from a medical settlement...
Dec 10 2019 // Tighter government climate regulations by 2025 could wipe up to $2.3 trillion off the value of companies in industries ranging from fossil fuel producers to agriculture and car makers, an investor group warned in a...
Dec 8 2019 // Royal Dutch Shell Plc units won a UK ruling preventing London courts from enforcing a $516 million Nigerian judgment for damages caused by an oil spill half a century ago.Judge Jason Coppel on Thursday overturned an...