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 ...

April 20 marked 15 years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, releasing 134 million gallons of oil off the coast of Louisiana in the country’s largest oil spill. Oil gushed for nearly three ...

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.

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 ...

Richard Epstein says Supreme Court must intervene in case that could reshape where massive pollution suits are heard ...

The Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research (ICCOPR) Research and Technology Plan will help to define priorities in the field of oil pollution research and guide future research ...

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 ...