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• BLM offers North Fork parcels for oil and gas leases

  November 17, 2012 7:58 AM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - After deferring plans to lease 30,000 acres for oil and gas development in the North Fork Valley, the federal government is going ahead with plans to lease parcels on two-thirds of that acreage. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Friday that following further analysis,... more »

• Environmental groups challenge Shell drilling plan

  June 9, 2011 11:57 AM

  ATLANTA (AP) - Environmental groups are asking a federal appeals court to throw out a U.S. government decision to approve a Shell oil exploration plan that involves five proposed wells under more than 7,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation... more »

• Interior Secretary Salazar lifts oil drilling moratorium

  October 12, 2010 1:35 PM

  Citing "significant process" in the safety of future drilling operations, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar ha lifted the deep water drilling moratorium. This affects rigs drilling in 500 feet of water or more. Each company will have to certify that it has complied with all safety rules and regulations.... more »

• Even Sting wonders about the gulf oil leak

  June 10, 2010 4:06 PM

  British rock star Sting says like everyone, he's paying attention to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and wonders why such a deep well was approved to begin with. "The problem in the first place is what were they doing drilling that deep without any safeguards? Who... more »

• Court OKs approval of Shell Arctic drilling plan

  May 14, 2010 8:26 AM

  An environmental group challenging Shell Oil's plans to drill exploratory wells off Alaska's coast calls a federal appeals court decision disappointing, given the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spill. A federal appeals court in Portland, Oregon ruled that the federal government met its obligations to consider the potential threat to wildlife... more »

• BP focuses on tube to stem Gulf oil gusher

  May 13, 2010 3:55 PM

  BP officials trying to contain a gushing Gulf oil leak will first try sucking oil away from the well with a tube that will be inserted into the jagged pipe leaking on the seafloor. Company spokesman Bill Salvin said Thursday BP hopes to start moving the 6-inch tube into... more »

• Finger pointing over the gulf oil spill

  May 11, 2010 8:44 AM

  Congress begins hearings today on the massive oil spill threatening sensitive marshes and marine life along the Gulf Coast and the blame game is in high gear. Executives of the three companies involved in the drilling activities that unleashed the environmental crisis are trying to shift responsibility to each... more »

• Arctic oil drilling arguments due in federal court

  May 6, 2010 8:31 AM

  Environmentalists who challenged plans to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean will have the Gulf of Mexico disaster to boost their arguments against offshore exploration to a federal appeals court in Oregon. Shell Oil has already been granted permits to drill exploratory wells this summer in the Arctic... more »

• Oil spill reaches Louisiana coast

  April 30, 2010 8:15 AM

  Fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes as a faint glaze of oil started to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast from a sunken rig. The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening hundreds of species of fish,... more »

• Obama to allow oil drilling off Virginia coast

  March 31, 2010 9:30 AM

  President Barack Obama plans to announce that the government will allow oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shoreline but will reject some proposed drilling sites in Alaska. Obama scheduled an announcement Wednesday at Andrews air base near Washington. In the speech, he was set to discuss why he is changing... more »

• Cavern could collapse, taking part of N.M. city

  November 10, 2009 11:13 AM

  The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad. "US 285 south subject to sinkhole 1,000 feet ahead," motorists are warned. But there is little other evidence that in southeastern New Mexico's oil country, a giant cavern sits beneath the... more »

• Judge blocks drilling on Colorado refuge

  September 4, 2009 8:51 AM

  A federal judge has indefinitely blocked oil and gas drilling on a wildlife refuge that sits next to the Great Sand Dunes National Park in south-central Colorado. U.S. District Court Judge Walker Miller Thursday granted a preliminary injunction, ruling environmental groups presented adequate evidence that drilling would cause irreparable injury... more »

• Colorado gas debate flares over well-site estimate

  September 2, 2009 11:27 AM

  An energy company has told investors there are up to 3,200 potential drilling sites on federal land on western Colorado's Roan Plateau, prompting renewed criticism from environmental groups. An attorney for the environmental groups says that would be 15 times more sites than the Bureau of Land Management included in... more »