oil drilling

Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought, Even as Drilling and Oil Production Fell

Oil and gas operators dramatically increased their reliance on high-quality water for fracking even though they produced enough wastewater to supply the operations.

By Liza Gross

California Bill Would Hit Oil Companies With $1 Million Penalty for Health Impacts

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main

Oil Industry Moves to Overturn Historic California Drilling Protection Law

By Liza Gross

Biden Promised to Stop Oil Drilling on Public Lands. Is His Failure to Do So a Betrayal or a Smart Political Move?

By Marianne Lavelle

Trump Plan Would Open Huge Area of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to Drilling

By Sabrina Shankman

Committee to Make Offshore Oil Drilling Safer May Disband

By Jason Plautz

Activists Scale Oil Rig to Protest Arctic Drilling

John Vidal, Guardian

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Tainting U.S. Drinking Water

By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica

Criticism of Secret Oil Dispersant in Gulf Grows Louder in U.S.

By Stacy Feldman