The proposed legislation comes after The Frontier and ProPublica found over 150 incidents where oilfield wastewater had gushed from the earth.

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country al ...

The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery is seen from Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park in Harbor City. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) Iretha Warmsley was born and raised in South L.A.'s Black ...

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

SANTA FE, N.M.— A coalition of Indigenous, frontline, youth and environmental organizations, and community members asked the New Mexico Supreme Court today to hear their appeal in a landmark lawsuit ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — It’s a loss today for some advocates — including some children — who sued the state. They claimed New Mexico wasn’t doing enough to prevent pollution from oil and gas drilling. On ...

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby accelerating the elimination of pollution, in many cases. It does this by ...

Air pollution from oil and gas is causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the United States annually, with Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic groups ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s southern state of Kerala, local residents were first bemused, then baffled.

OPA 90 establishes a federal framework for oil spill liability and cleanup, ensuring prompt removal and compensation for economic and environmental damages from oil discharges or threats of discharge ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Environmental experts are warning that the U.S. push to revamp and boost Venezuela’s vast oil reserves could worsen decades of ecological damage and increase planet-warming ...