Richard Baker remembers the feathers: brightwhite and striking. Just 20 days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had ...

“As we have repeatedly seen in California and other parts of the country, offshore drilling is a ticking time bomb,” they continued. “Any expansion of offshore drilling in the waters off the coast of ...

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 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 ...

Local residents expressed their opposition to a Trump administration plan for new offshore drilling off the coast of California during a “People’s Hearing” at the Encinitas Community Center on ...

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 ...

Japan woke up to renewed anxiety after a strong offshore earthquake rattled its northern regions, once again reminding the ...

If the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be opened to offshore drilling. Eastern Gulf offshore rigs could be as close as 100 miles south ...

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