Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a unique and environmentally friendly solution of utilizing crop waste to seal abandoned oil wells and capture carbon by permanently sequestering ...

Mikeal Berthelot, Jr., was navigating the mouth of the Mississippi River in his shrimp boat, a stretch of water he’d traversed many times before. The water was calm. The sun beat down. His deckhand ...

A coalition of climate advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department accusing it of endangering residents’ health by failing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles County filed an environmental lawsuit Wednesday against oil and gas well operators to compel them to address what ...

A Times-Picayune analysis found that more than 3,600 oil wells drilled on land or in marsh are now in open water. To do so, the newspaper used the U.S. Geological Survey’s historical shoreline maps.

Gulf War disaster in 1991 showed how conflict can trigger environmental damage that spreads far beyond the battlefield.

As land is further developed in Los Angeles County, multiple sources need to shed light on oil well mapping, writes Richard White of LightBox. Oil pumpjacks near Fellows, California, in Kern County. A ...