Kern County Superior Court Judge Bernard C. Barmann Jr.’s preliminary decision comes two years after California formally ...

One of the Newsom administration’s signature climate achievements came undone this week with a tentative ruling that the state acted improperly when it carried out a two-phase ban on the oil well ...

Just two years after oil fracking was formally banned in California, and five years after fracking approvals ended, Kern ...

Just days after the Trump administration launched proceedings that could limit California’s ability to protect its iconic shoreline, the state’s top coastal officials reasserted their authority by ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

President-elect Donald Trump may find the road to cheaper gas prices is a little rocky. “Frack, frack, frack and drill, baby, drill,” Trump said at an October rally. Trump has said he wants to lower ...

U.S. shale oil wells generate 27–45 million barrels of toxic wastewater every day, with shale gas adding billions more gallons annually. Traditional underground disposal is polluting groundwater, ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ attempt to explain her reversed stance on fracking did little to allay fears from oil and gas advocates about what she would do on energy as president. And some green ...

Shale oil and gas has turned the country into an energy powerhouse, but communities living near the field are counting the cost ...

Colombia's new right-wing government under President Abelardo de la Espriella is moving to reverse a four-year ban on oil and gas exploration, with up to $4 billion in investment reportedly on the ...