A ruptured oil well in western North Dakota was temporarily plugged on Friday after leaking more than 2,400 barrels of crude and water, company officials said. more...
One of Northern California's largest polluters may be trying to orchestrate a last-minute deal with Sacramento lawmakers to evade state environmental laws, potentially increasing its toxic emissions and skirting two court rulings. more...
Pat Daniel has run a successful public relations campaign on the ground in Michigan, but his company isn't out of the woods yet Cigdem Iltan and Shawn McCarthy Marshall, Mich.and Ottawa - From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Sep. more...
Australia's Oilex Ltd today said it has made huge natural gas discovery in Gujarat that may hold over 1.5 Trillion cubic feet of recoverable reserves. more...
BP PLC is stepping up its asset disposal plans with a revived effort to sell all or part of its Prudhoe Bay stake in Alaska and an increase in its target for total asset sales, according to media reports. more...
A few weeks ago Tim Havlock and a friend decided to perform an experiment. They walked to the edge of the Kalamazoo River, which runs past the back of Havlock's property, took a stick, swirled it in the oily water and lit it on fire. more...
As crews worked to hoist the blowout preventer that once sat atop BP 's stricken well to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the federal leader of the spill response said Saturday that there was no longer any risk that the well might leak again. more...
