Oil may have killed Gulf dolphins
In spring 2011 stillborn and newborn bottlenose dolphins washed up dead on Gulf coast beaches from Louisiana to Alabama in unusually high numbers.
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Hamm says it’s wrong to help Iran but not U.S. oil producers
Billionaire oilman Harold Hamm questioned Tuesday how the U.S. government could consider lifting sanctions that would allow Iran to export oil, while keeping a decades-old ban in place prohibiting American energy companies from selling domestic crude on the world market.
Hybrid and electric vehicles struggle to maintain owner loyalty
Car buyers are trading in hybrid and electric cars for SUVs at a higher rate than ever before, according to a new analysis from car-buying platform Edmunds.com.
Cleaner fuels, cleaner air: An Earth Day message from Joe Cannon
Just before Earth Day in 1970, Edward Cole, then president of General Motors, promised pollution free cars by 1980. I call Utah home, and all I have to do is look out my window to tell you we’re not there yet. Half of all air pollution in the U.S. still comes from vehicles burning gasoline […]
Oklahoma scientists say earthquakes linked to oil and gas work
Oklahoma geologists have documented strong links between increased seismic activity in the state and the injection into the ground of wastewater from oil and gas production, a state agency said on Tuesday.
Natural gas leaks: a $30 billion opportunity and global warming menace
A new study released Tuesday suggests that the global oil and gas industries allow as much as 3.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas — and almost certainly far more — to escape into the atmosphere annually.
For crude oil, this looks like 2009 all over again
Just as it did at this point on the chart in 2009, crude is set to rise further from here, one analyst said.
Oil rigs’ biggest risk: human error
Government and industry officials continue to wrestle with a problem investigators say was at the heart of the 2010 Gulf oil spill: human error.
5 years after BP spill, drillers push into riskier depths
Five years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill, the industry is working on drilling even further into the risky depths beneath the Gulf of Mexico to tap massive deposits once thought unreachable. Opening this new frontier, miles below the bottom of the Gulf, requires engineering feats far beyond those used at BP’s much shallower […]
5 years after BP oil spill, effects linger and recovery is slow
Cynthia Sarthou, executive director of Gulf Restoration Network, says that after five years, there are more questions than answers about what the lingering impact of the spill means.
