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People living close to fracking wells are at a higher risk of being hospitalized or losing their lives due to heart attacks. New study findings published in the journal Environmental Research compared the rates of heart...

Guest cheer-leading by David Middleton Everglades open for oil drilling after court ruling A Tallahassee appeals court reversed a decision by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection Tuesday, ultimately granting...

Most of the results are in from Tuesday’s election, and when it comes to environmental issues, the outcomes sent a lot of mixed messages. While renewable energy and the fight against climate change won in some states, fossil...

Two national parks in the Democratic Republic of Congo could soon face pollution threats and habitat destruction if oil drilling is given the green light...

Following Congress's move to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas production, a long-sought goal of the Republican Party, fossil fuel companies are moving forward with their plans to develop the...

The United States imposed sanctions on Russia back in 2014 after Moscow annexed Crimea. But it appears oil giant ExxonMobil would like an exception for their own profit. They're seeking a sanctions waiver from the U.S. Treasury...

A recent report by The Guardian reveals that Shell not only knew the extent of climate change as far back as 1991, but even made a film about it. The oil company's film, called “Climate of Concern,” said the climate was...

Oil drilling along the Atlantic Coast of the United States has been discontinued since the early 1980s. The Obama Administration had recently been considering open the coast of Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas to drilling...

Bernie Sanders is taking on President Barack Obama's "all of the above" energy strategy. The Democratic presidential candidate and Independent Senator from Vermont on Wednesday co-introduced a climate bill, called the "Keep...

Bernie Sanders is taking on President Barack Obama's "all of the above" energy strategy. The Democratic presidential candidate and Independent Senator from Vermont on Wednesday co-introduced a climate bill, called the "Keep...

If you thought Santa Claus was as American as apple pie and baseball, think again. The jolly old elf might soon need to apply for a Russian passport if Russia's new claim over a vast swathe of the Arctic, including the North...

As we mark the fifth anniversary of the explosion that rocked the Deepwater Horizon rig, claiming 11 lives and sparking a 87 day-long, 200 million gallon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, studies continue to reveal the devastating...

On March 31, President Barack Obama's administration renewed the 2008 Arctic lease sale. That decision started a 30-day clock for the Interior Department to review Royal Dutch Shell's drilling plans. The oil company has...

In the city of Vernal, Utah, midwives and scientists are noticing an alarming trend: in 2010 newborn babies accounted for one in every 95 burials, but by 2013 that rate jumped to one in every 15 burials, with a steady increase...

A new study by a team from the University of California-Santa Barbara, University of California-Irvine, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has found that there are still two million barrels-worth of oil from BP's...