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House Oversight Committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., announced Thursday that the committee would be issuing subpoenas to six fossil fuel companies after they refused to comply with its investigation over Big Oil’s role in spreading climate change misinformation.

House Oversight Committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., blasted Exxon, Shell, Chevron and BP executives for knowingly misinforming the public on the impact of their products on climate change. “For far too long, Big Oil has escaped accountability for its central role for bringing our planet to the brink of a climate catastrophe. That ends today.”

Congressional Democrats are calling top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants to testify about what lawmakers say is a long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming.

Ten years after the nation’s biggest offshore oil spill fouled its waters, the Gulf of Mexico sparkles in the sunlight and its fish are safe to eat

Ten years ago, an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico

Two years after a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas Strip hotel, MGM Resorts International has agreed to pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and hundreds of others who were injured, attorneys announced Thursday. The out-of-court agreement will resolve lawsuits in at least 10 states seeking compensation...

At least 279 dolphins have stranded across much of the U.S. Gulf Coast since Feb. 1, triple the usual number, and about 98 percent of them have died, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.

A Campo woman said she was scared for her life when an unmarked vehicle with flashing lights and sirens blaring attempted to pull her over along Interstate 8 in Pine Valley.

Three people were killed and eight others were injured when a truck with passengers riding in the truckbed crashed while fleeing from San Diego border patrol agents.

Two private equity owners of the iconic Toys R Us toy chain will be handing over a $20 million hardship fund to the thousands of former workers left jobless and without severance after the chain liquidated in June.

Think the Red Sox are asleep at the ballpark? You may be right. Catching some Zzzzs during downtime could help Boston be more alert during the first coast-to-coast World Series in 20 years. A sleep room was opened last year at Fenway Park, adjacent to the gym next to the home clubhouse. Two bunk beds contain four queen-sized mattresses.

Video posted by Letisia Maloney shows what she saw as she rode out Hurricane Michael in her home in Panama City, Florida.

A Florida gas station owner has placed a sign in his store asking customers not to warm urine in the microwave.

The ball cleared the center field wall, and the sellout crowd roared. Bryce Harper threw his bat in the air, thrust both index fingers skyward and yelled with delight as a shower of streamers rained upon the crowd of 43,698.

A U.S. judge who held a hearing about climate change that received widespread attention ruled Monday that Congress and the president were best suited to address the contribution of fossil fuels to global warming, throwing out lawsuits that sought to hold big oil companies liable for the Earth’s changing environment. Noting that the world has also benefited significantly from oil...

Voters in Alaska’s largest city are on track to becoming the first in the U.S. to defeat a so-called bathroom bill in a referendum that asked them to require people using public bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender at birth. The initiative asked Anchorage’s voters to repeal an ordinance passed in 2015 that prevented discrimination based on sexual...

A federal judge presiding over lawsuits that accuse big oil companies of lying about global warming to protect their profits is turning his courtroom into a classroom in what could be the first hearing to study the science of climate change. U.S. District Judge William Alsup has asked lawyers for two California cities and five of the world’s largest oil...

They trailed for most of the game, but the Patriots will be going to Minnesota for Super Bowl LII after coming from behind to beat the Jaguars.