NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of ...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators did not need this week’s explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Thursday it will investigate this week’s fatal well explosion in Oklahoma, the deadliest shale-drilling accident since the start of the shale boom. House ...

(Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude oil ...

Dear EarthTalk: Given the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last month, isn't it high time the government put a stop to offshore oil drilling once and for all? Short of banning it altogether, what ...

QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — A drilling contractor performing “investigative work” pierced a hole through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel Wednesday, causing a leak that forced officials to close the tunnel ...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of ...

"If there were a serious drilling accident in one of the Great Lakes, the results could be devastating and permanent," Buchsbaum said. "These are closed fresh-water lakes. A major spill could likely ...

I have heard, and continue to hear, the outcries of my constituents in the 117th Legislative District about the safety of natural gas drilling and its potential impact on our natural resources. These ...

Offshore oil and gas drilling is a complex process that involves extracting reserves from underneath the seabed. It has been used for decades and remains essential in meeting energy needs for many ...