If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has its way, a huge swath of the Eastern Gulf, long considered off limits, will be ...

The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel ...

A plan to expand oil and gas drilling, including seven areas in the Gulf of America off Florida, has been released by the ...

LETTER TO THE editor in Thursday’s PDN: I recently learned that the huge oil drilling rig that is parked in full view of anyone driving near Port Angeles Harbor is here to stay for a while (“Giant Oil ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Oil leaking from a sunken drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico oozed slowly toward the coast Monday, endangering hundreds of miles of marshes, barrier islands and white sand beaches ...

Oil and gas companies have been reporting stunning profits. Houston-based Burlington Resources, Anadarko Petroleum and Apache Corp. all earned well over $1 billion last year. The biggest of them all, ...