Shell oil company has cleared another hurdle in its quest to explore for oil off Alaska's northwest coast.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and sportsmen from across the state say they are encouraged that the federal government will be making changes to how oil and natural gas leases are awarded on public lands.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced policy changes he said will bring more scrutiny and a greater public voice in how oil and gas leases are awarded on public lands.
An agreement signed Tuesday is aimed at safeguarding thousands of prehistoric American Indian drawings and carvings from truckers' dust in a famed Utah canyon near where a Colorado company wants to dramatically increase energy development.
Oil and gas companies face more drilling delays and higher costs because of a new U.S. Bureau of Land Management policy for protecting sage grouse in Wyoming, according to the Petroleum Association of Wyoming.
Opponents of a plan to drill dozens of natural gas wells in the southwest Colorado mountains, including roadless forest land, accused federal officials Thursday of playing a shell game with public lands.
The Environmental Protection Agency said New York regulators have much more work to do on proposed regulations that have already held up gas drilling in the state's part of the massive Marcellus Shale formation for more than a year.
Opponents of a federally approved plan to drill dozens of natural gas wells in the HD Mountains in southwest Colorado are taking their fight to court.
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell wants the federal government to move forward with offshore energy exploration off of Virginia's coast.
New York City's Department of Environmental Protection called on state officials Wednesday to ban natural gas drilling in the Catskills watershed, saying it would pose too great a risk to the city's upstate drinking water system.
An agreement to protect a Utah canyon decorated by ancient American Indian art is expected to allow energy development in the area to move forward.
A Swiss court on Monday acquitted a geologist accused of causing earthquakes while drilling deep into the ground in a pioneering attempt to produce clean energy.
Native Alaskan groups who depend on whaling and a coalition of environmental groups sued the federal government Tuesday, seeking to block a Shell Oil subsidiary from drilling next year in the Beaufort Sea.
Bronco Drilling Company, Inc. said Thursday that it operated fewer drilling rigs but increased its dayrate in November when compared with averages from the previous quarter.
Switzerland has ended a pioneering geothermal project, authorities said Thursday, three years after the deep drilling into the ground caused a series of earthquakes, scaring residents of the northwestern city of Basel.
Environmentalist concerns about elk have prompted the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to suspend coal-bed methane drilling in part of the gas-rich Powder River Basin in northeast Wyoming.
The Minerals Management Service on Monday conditionally approved plans by Shell Oil Co. to drill three exploratory wells next year in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast.
The federal government has acknowledged it never prosecuted anyone who failed to pay a bid for drilling rights in Utah until a college student offered his bogus bids in an act of environmental defiance.
Environmentalists are questioning the legal justification offered for what would be the only active oil well inside the nation's first national forest.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, accusing some industry trade groups of acting like an arm of the Republican Party in criticizing the Obama administration's record on energy production.
A Democratic candidate for agriculture commissioner has a response to Republican calls to "Drill, Baby, Drill."
The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea. The delay came after the oil company asked for time to respond to criticism of its plan to drill in the icy sea, a prime habitat for threatened polar bears.
In a Nov. 16 story about a federal case involving a college student's disruption of an oil and gas auction in Utah, The Associated Press erroneously described a ruling by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson.
Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of President Barack Obama that many aren't bothering to show up for auctions.
A huge increase in the application fee for oil and gas companies to drill on federal land is unfair and won't speed up review of drilling permits, industry officials said Wednesday.