Six environmental groups are threatening to sue the federal government in connection with its planning for oil shale development, saying the Interior Department illegally denied an opportunity for ...

A Denver court recently decided that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would have to reconsider placing Graham's Penstemon on the Federal Endangered Species List. A Denver court recently decided that ...

GREEN RIVER - At present, there is no commercial production of oil shale being undertaken in the United States. That may be about to change, however. The Bureau of Land Management recently finalized a ...

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WASHINGTON The Bush administration wants to set the stage before leaving office for developing oil shale, rocky deposits in the western U.S. that could eventually yield 800 billion barrels of oil, ...

U.S. shale companies and global energy giants reshape oil, gas, solar, coal, and nuclear markets as energy stocks gain ...

A federal subsidy that would funnel $50 million to the oil-shale-development industry -- which is still not commercially viable, and may not be for decades -- has caused watchdog... A federal subsidy ...

GOLDEN — It could require less than half a barrel of water to buoy up a barrel of oil from the high desert of the west, Shell Oil Co. said. One barrel of oil could be produced from oil shale for as ...