Oil Drilling

A federal judge in Louisiana has ordered an end to the Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water

The Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as officials move to reverse the energy and environmental policies of the Trump administration

The Department of the Interior has approved an oil and gas leasing program within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

It was a matter of life and death in 2015 when California Gov. Jerry Brown pondered an assisted suicide bill granting terminally ill people the right to choose when they die.

A News4 I-Team investigation found some of the world’s biggest environmental groups have been investing in the oil and gas industry for years.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday sued California over a law that aims to give the state power to override the sale of federal lands, the latest battle between President Donald Trump and the nation’s most populous state. California vowed to fight for the state’s first right to purchase federal lands or to arrange for a specific buyer —...

Republicans in Congress are barreling ahead on their sweeping revamp of the nation’s tax code, with votes in the House and Senate on Tuesday and a final vote in the House on Wednesday. President Donald Trump is aching to sign it before Christmas.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Monday that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and President Donald Trump, adding that he is working to change the department’s regulatory culture to be more business friendly. Zinke, a former Navy SEAL, said he knew when he took over the 70,000-employee department in March that, “I got 30...

As climate change pushes the ice a little farther north each year, it is spurring talk of a gold rush in the remote Arctic for abundant natural resources, prized shipping routes and business opportunities in tourism and fishing. The Arctic, including the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific, is among the last regions on earth to remain...

Pope Francis wraps up the first leg of a three-nation South American pilgrimage Wednesday after issuing an impassioned call for a new economic and ecological world order where the goods of the Earth are shared by everyone, not just exploited by the rich. Francis will visit the elderly and give a pep talk to local priests before flying to Bolivia,...

Pope Francis urged a crowd of more than 1 million people Tuesday to channel the same urgency that brought Latin America its independence from Spain into spreading the faith on a continent where Catholicism is losing souls to evangelical movements. Francis used his final Mass in Ecuador to appeal for the missionary church that he long has championed. He issued...

More than 1 million people filled a park in Ecuador’s main port city on Monday for Pope Francis’ first big event of his three-nation South American tour, hoping for a glimpse of Latin America’s first pope returning to his home soil for a Mass dedicated to the family. Many pilgrims spent the night outdoors, and some walked for miles to...

History’s first Latin American pope returns to Spanish-speaking South America for the first time on Sunday, bringing a message of solidarity with the region’s poor, who are expected to turn out in droves to welcome their native son home.

It’s just an idea being considered — but there’s already plenty of reaction to a plan being floated by the Obama administration that would, for the first time, open up a wide area of the Atlantic Coast to drilling.