Tagged: offshore drilling
With just a few weeks left in his presidency, President Barack Obama banned offshore drilling in large areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans this week. Climate change and environmental activists quickly hailed the...
Wetlands specialists say it’s still unclear how the nearly 90,000 gallons of oil spilled earlier this month in the Gulf of Mexico has affected the marine environment and wildlife. The leak from the Shell...
Environmentalists are cheering the Obama administration’s decision Tuesday to take oil drilling leases off the table for the Atlantic Ocean. But the oil industry may still have its shot at drilling in the Arctic....
An offshore platform in one of Mexico’s most important oil fields caught fire early Wednesday morning. Shannon Young reports. Download Audio The blaze on the Abkatún Permanente platform in the Sound of Campeche looked...
It’s been nearly four years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and led to what many call the worst human made environmental disaster in U.S. history. The body of scientific evidence documenting how...