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Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso helped the Republican-controlled Senate pass a 10-year budget resolution 52-48 Friday after an all ...

Having launched a successful Dark Skies Initiative in West Texas, the McDonald Observatory is expanding that initiative to New Mexico. In 2010, the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory ...

New California bill sparks debate on oil company liability for wildfire damages and potential economic impacts.

Merging BP and Shell isn’t a completely mad idea, says Yawen Chen in Breakingviews. Even modest savings from eliminating duplication could add $33 billion to the value of the combined group. But there ...

AMERICA'S attainment of financial power coincided with epochal achievements in science and combined to create in the American ...

The decision about the Rice's whale from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was applauded by the oil and gas industry ...

New regulations and EPA actions most dramatically affect small and mid-sized producers and will likely make their marginal ...

The executive order aims to dismantle safeguards put in place under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law historically used by presidents to protect U.S. coastal waters from oil and gas ...

We recently published a list of Jim Cramer Discusses These 11 Stocks & President Trump’s Approval Drop. In this article, we ...

It’s not all about oil, one of the president’s big priorities. Why natural gas tops our list of the industry’s most promising ...

Elected officials in the nation’s largest state are hoping for a long-term increase in drilling and production as the new ...