In 1988, Piper Alpha became the scene of the worst offshore oil disaster in history when a chain of explosions turned the giant North Sea platform into a collapsing firestorm. Helicopter footage ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. Trump administration plan would move oil drilling closer to Florida. Crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico after ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday morning at the Wharfinger building in Eureka to hear from local and state leaders about how to fight offshore oil drilling on the California coast. Banners loudly ...

Oceana, an international organization focused on ocean conservation, has determined that if the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be ...

An oil platform goes down dramatically in Norwegian waters and, as investigators try to find out what happened, they discover that they are on the trail of something more sinister. No, this is not the ...

It’s back—the federal government’s push to expand offshore oil drilling. As the headline last month in the Long Island newspaper Newsday reported: “Plan for New Oil Drilling Off Fla. and Calif. Coasts ...