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A new study published by Stanford University suggests that fossil-fueled cars will vanish within eight years - and citizens will have no choice but to invest in electric vehicles or similar technologies...

Email already hobbled one politician; could it prove to be the downfall of another? The writing might be on the wall for Scott Pruitt, longtime foe of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as well as its newest administrator....

An oil pipeline just began to leak in Ventura, California. Early Thursday morning, firefighters rushed to the scene to try and prevent the crude oil from spilling into the ocean. Ventura County Fire Department spokesperson...

It turns out the oil industry has known about climate change for decades. The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) republished a 1968 document written by two scientists at the Stanford Research Institute that...

Over the course of a year, the value of a barrel of oil fell from $110 to around $30 at the start of 2016. Over this same period, global annual investment in renewable energy continued to demonstrate strong growth, rising...

In California, the ground is dry, cracking, and sinking faster than ever. Farmers are walking away from hundreds of thousands of acres of croplands because there is no water to irrigate. Golf courses and celebs are shamed...

In spite of being passed by both the Senate and the House, President Obama has maintained his promise to veto a controversial bill that sought to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline...

In spite of being passed by both the Senate and the House, President Obama has maintained his promise to veto a controversial bill that sought to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline...

The U.S. Senate voted 62-36 in favor of the highly-contested Keystone XL pipeline on Thursday (1/29), with nine Democrats crossing party lines to show support for the $8 billion project that would transport 830,000 barrels...

A farmer in North Dakota noticed something funny going on in his wheat field in late September. At first, he could only smell what he suspected was crude oil, but within a few days it began gushing up out of the ground, spreading...

Want a good example of political hypocrisy and blatant favoritism? The Government Shutdown mandates that all National Parks and Monuments be closed to visitors, disrupting trips that have been years in the making...

A small town in Texas has run out of water and local residents are blaming shale gas fracking. Barnhart, a town in Irion county, was already suffering after three years of drought, The Guardian reports, but it wasn't until...

Photo © On Wings of Care When Hurricane Ivan coursed through the Gulf of Mexico in 2004, it knocked out operations at a Taylor Energy Company platform and ruptured several well heads in the area...

Common Seahorse Image from Shutterstock The dwarf seahorse, native to shallow seagrass along the Gulf of Mexico, Florida Keys and areas of the Caribbean, looks set to placed on the endangered species list, in part due to...

Oil Pipeline Image from Shutterstock An Exxon Mobil pipeline serving the nation’s third-largest refinery ‘failed’ over the weekend, spilling 80,000 gallons (1,900 barrels) of crude oil into land in near...