The executive order aims to dismantle safeguards put in place under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law historically used by presidents to protect U.S. coastal waters from oil and gas ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation, H.R. 26, the “Protecting American Energy Production Act,” to prohibit ...

US conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the administration of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, claiming the ...

The law authorizes the president to withdraw offshore areas from oil and gas leasing, as eight administrations, including the first Trump administration, have routinely done. However, the law does not ...

Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has secured a one-year extension with Chevron for its Shelf Drilling Scepter jack ...

“Offshore drilling is a dirty and damaging practice that is a direct threat to our thriving ocean recreation economy,” Chad ...

Deepwater and shallow-water drillers are eyeing up new opportunities to meet demand in Norway, where oil and gas operators ...

The groups say the president does not have the authority to revoke an earlier president's ocean protections under federal law ...

Several environmental groups sued President Donald Trump and top officials at the Interior and Commerce departments on ...

Conservation groups filed two legal challenges Wednesday to the Trump administration’s moves to shrink areas protected from ...