oil and gas industry

Fossil fuel interests like carbon capture — it helps them drill more oil and emit less greenhouse gas. Homeowners say, "Not in my backyard."

In a legal setback for fossil fuel advocates, a federal court has invalidated a large offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, ruling Thursday in favor of environmental groups that sued to block the lease after it was scheduled for auction in 2023.

LNG proponents say gas will help rebuild Ukraine. But critics say it will only help industry – undermining Ukraine’s security and Louisiana’s environment.

Oil executives, business interests push economic benefits of carbon capture as President Trump takes aim at climate funding OK’d under Biden.

The administration’s efforts to solve a so-called “energy emergency” might create an actual crisis.

Despite President Donald Trump’s calls to “drill, baby, drill,” many oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will likely do what they’ve done for years: sit on hundreds of untapped oil leases across millions of acres.

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, an effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.

Tax documents show energy company foundations financed the anti-abortion movement in the Gulf South for years. Now, they could get a tax break for that support.

The state’s unwavering support of the oil, gas, and chemical industries has made it difficult to reduce emissions, fund coastal restoration, or address extreme weather.

Nearly half of known Gulf of Mexico worker fatalities didn’t fit the agency’s reporting criteria