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With growing calls for the need to reduce plastic production, industry groups are pushing back.

The United States formally exits the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change.

A new study suggests that if global temperatures rise by another 3.5 degrees Celsius, sea levels could rise by an additional 4 feet by the end of the century and 16 feet by the year 2300.

The next chapter in the coronavirus-related oil crisis is now inevitable: Large parts of the petroleum industry are about to start shutting down.

Venezuela is a textbook case of the "resource curse," with nearly 90 percent of its population living in poverty in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves. After decades of leaders who failed to harness this commodity for peace and prosperity, it is questionable whether a new government can do a better job.

The gas rush is upending communities with traffic and noise, reshaping the way the state looks and sounds. Residents are often powerless to stop it.

The U.S., Russia and Saudi Arabia are churning out crude at record levels, causing global supply to significantly outstrip demand, the International Energy Agency said.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by San Francisco and Oakland on Monday that looked to hold the energy industry liable for costs related to climate change.

California communities that are suing oil and gas companies over climate change were dealt a setback when a federal judge denied requests by San Francisco and Oakland to move their cases to state court.

Seven cities and counties are seeking to recoup billions of dollars from fossil-fuel-energy producers to compensate for past and future damage incurred because of rising seas. They are seeking to have the issue heard in state court, a venue they see as more favorable to them than the federal courts.

But on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that the far-reaching scope of the issue puts the matter in federal jurisdiction.

Thanks to the just-passed Trump Tax Bill (and associated language therein unrelated to taxes), the federal government’s Department of the Interior is poised to open up the Arctic National Wil…

Today's narrow House approval of the Senate's fiscal year 2018 budget plan paves the way for subsequent legislation to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) that's immune from Senate filibuster.Why it matters: Republicans who have unified control of Washington ar

Sen. Henry Stern’s plan, which is still in development, focuses on four areas, including developing local clean energy generation and storage, cutting demand for natural gas, improving effici…

State officials will vote next week on whether to allow four gas-fired power plants along the Southern California coast to keep operating past 2020, in the first major energy supply decision for Gov.

A Southern California petroleum mogul whose enormous fortune was long suspected of being criminally derived was convicted in Utah federal court of fraud and money laundering.

Thousands of Australians took to the streets on Friday to protest the government's inaction on climate change and the bushfire crisis.

The measure bars any California leasing authority from allowing pipelines or other oil and gas infrastructure to be built on state property.

Young activists wanted regulators to make oil and gas development contingent on protecting health and curbing climate change. Now they hope to change the law.

The biggest news and trends in energy, business and politics by Ben Geman, with Amy Harder. Weekday mornings

The U.S. oil industry has spent a record $30 million to fight a ballot measure in Washington state that would create the nation’s first carbon tax, double what an alliance of green groups and billionaire activists has spent to support it, according to state data reviewed by Reuters.

The California Public Utilities Commission has recommended giving SoCal Gas permission to store to 34 billion cubic feet at the troubled Aliso Canyon facility. Officials say the capacity is needed to ward off outages as summer temperatures climb.

Rep. Lamar Smith has led a strategic attack on climate science using the committee he chairs. Back in Texas, his constituents face the effects of global warming.