Jan 18 WATCH: Pentagon condemns attack on United Arab Emirates oil facility By Associated Press The Pentagon is condemning a fatal attack on an oil facility in the capital of the United Arab Emirates claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels. Continue reading
Oct 28 Exxon CEO denies spreading disinformation on climate change By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Exxon CEO Darren Woods is among top officials testifying Thursday as congressional Democrats investigate what they describe as a decades-long campaign to push disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming. Continue reading
Apr 16 Coast Guard divers hope to reach 12 missing in capsized ship By Stacey Plaisance, Kevin McGill, Jeff Martin, Associated Press Divers searching for oil industry workers on a capsized lift boat prepared to enter the overturned vessel on Friday. The effort to rescue 12 missing people has been complicated by daunting technical challenges and continued bad weather. Continue reading
Apr 21 Oil prices keep crumbling, stocks around the world tumble By Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise, Alex Veiga, Associated Press Stocks are falling in afternoon trading on Wall Street and the collapse in oil prices is deepening as the economic carnage caused by the coronavirus pandemic turns markets upside down. Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch 2:43 A postcard from where Alaska’s oil industry and wilderness meet By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, oil started flowing down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline 40 years ago. Every summer, thousands of workers file through Deadhorse, Alaska, an operations center for the oil field, including postal worker Les Dunbar. Eric… Continue watching
Jun 17 Watch In Brazil’s Olympic bay, tides of death and ecological devastation By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 22 U.S. proposes rules to limit methane gas ‘flaring’ at drilling sites By Matthew Daly, Associated Press The Obama administration on Friday proposed new rules to clamp down on oil companies that burn off natural gas on public land. Continue reading
Nov 06 Watch 8:05 What’s the impact of Obama’s Keystone pipeline decision? By PBS News Hour What do lawmakers think of President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline? Judy Woodruff gets thoughts on the economic, environmental and political fallout from Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch 3:01 Obama: Keystone XL wouldn’t serve national interest By PBS News Hour After years of consideration, President Obama formally rejected TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline application, which would have permitted oil from Canada's tar sands to flow to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Though the company and many Republican lawmakers argued it would benefit… Continue watching
Oct 20 Watch 5:48 What the return of high school football means to an oil boom town By PBS News Hour Like so many small towns on the Great Plains, Alexander, North Dakota, had been shrinking as more and more young people moved away. But for the first time in 28 years, Alexander has a football team, thanks largely to an… Continue watching