Tag: oil
Coastal fish populations didn’t crash after the Deepwater Horizon spill –...
F. Joel Fodrie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released 4 to 5 million barrels of oil into...
A decade after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, offshore drilling is still...
Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Ten years ago, on April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11...
Why the US-Iran conflict isn’t driving oil prices higher – and...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Assassinations, militaries on high alert, geopolitical tensions at the boil. Any one of these in Persian Gulf countries would...
Fight or switch? How the low-carbon transition is disrupting fossil fuel...
Cara Daggett, Virginia Tech
As the Trump administration works to weaken regulations on fossil fuel production and use, a larger struggle is playing out across...
Oil companies are thinking about a low-carbon future, but aren’t making...
Lewis Fulton, University of California, Davis and Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis
The global oil industry stands at a crossroads. Corporate leaders are weighing...
Trump offshore drilling plan may be dead in the water, but...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
President Trump’s effort to expand offshore oil and gas exploration has stalled, and may be dead in the water....
Underwater mudslides are the biggest threat to offshore drilling, and energy...
Ian R. MacDonald, Florida State University
Like generals planning for the last war, oil company managers and government inspectors tend to believe that because they...
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...
Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...
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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
