Industry favored | Work for jobless | Reverse course. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for Nov. 25, 2025.

Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, some scientists and environmentalists worry the industry’s new technology could bring ...

Society is built on increasingly complex and interconnected infrastructure systems to support our way of life. The National Academies study transportation, energy, water systems, and urban design to ...

The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in ...

I’m furious. The cleanup is a joke,” said the homeowner on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 20. The homeowner, who asked that his name not be used publicly, called 9-1-1 ...

As markets seek reliable forecasts to navigate increasingly volatile weather patterns, Planette released its Winter 2025-26 Long-Range Weather Forecast & Commodity Outlook. While most forecasters are ...

The push comes as the Landry administration shifts the state’s coastal protection priorities. This year, CPRA canceled the two largest coastal projects: the Mid-Barataria and Mid-Breton Sediment ...

The Alabama Port Authority said Wednesday that a plan to create hundreds of acres of wetlands in a portion of upper Mobile Bay has taken two big steps forward. The Upper Mobile Bay Wetlands project ...

When the corroded pipeline burst in 2015, inky crude spread along the Southern California coast, becoming the state’s worst oil spill in decades. More than 140,000 gallons (3,300 barrels) of oil ...

Ecuador's oil industry is in crisis due to corruption, dwindling investment, and corroded infrastructure, leading to frequent and environmentally damaging oil spills. The Trans-Ecuadorian System Oil ...

State Attorney General Liz Murrill has asked the federal government to drop a $128 million lawsuit against insurance companies over the longest-running spill in U.S. history — leaking off Louisiana's ...