Energy Resources

In a move that promises cleaner air throughout the Chicago area, BP on Wednesday agreed to spend more than $400 million to settle legal complaints about chronic pollution problems at the oil company's sprawling refinery in northwest Indiana. Steps that...

  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The backer of a proposed ballot item that would raise the severance tax on natural gas claims opponents of the tax intimidated some of his signature gatherers into leaving polling places during Tuesday's primary.  Sheffield...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The case of an Ann Arbor boy whose father accidentally gave him an alcoholic drink at a 2008 Detroit Tigers game may spark changes the state’s protective services regulations. MLive.com reports legislation inspired by...

I think I've discovered what makes me so uncomfortable about the assertion that global warming is a real and urgent problem. A front-page New York Times story on May 1 concerned (thanks, Mr. Rumsfeld, for the pithy phrase) a "known unknown": the earth'...

An environmental group that has supported a proposed downtown Los Angeles football stadium and helped the developer secure special treatment in the courts issued a sharply worded critique Tuesday of environmental documents prepared for the project. In...

A partnership of government agencies and conservation groups announced Tuesday that they have protected 1,278 acres west of Lake Okeechobee to help Florida panthers as they migrate with increasing frequency from the Everglades north toward Central...

SACRAMENTO — Nearly a year after a Kern County oil worker was sucked underground and boiled to death, state authorities have turned to the two leading oil companies involved in the incident to investigate it. On Monday, the Division of Oil, Gas and...

Columbia Gas Transmission's underground pipeline runs alongside David Raymond's house in Cockeysville today, as it did when he bought the place 30 years ago, quietly delivering natural gas to Baltimore County and beyond without incident. Still, Raymond...

We can make a difference for wildfowl species that migrate through Indiana by commenting on Bureau of Land Management options to manage the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as it is opened for gas and oil drilling. Tens of thousands of ducks and geese,...

Fans of fishing, canoeing and sunbathing are about to lose one of their favorite lake hangouts. The city of Bloomington owns the man-made Griffy Lake and needs to drain the lake to repair the dam and other structures. "It's a great place to catch...

BUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old boy was injured in a natural gas explosion at his home near Saginaw. WSGW-AM reports (http://bit.ly/KrFpLx ) the boy was putting food in a microwave oven on Saturday in Buena Vista...

The Marcellus shale is a hot topic in Pennsylvania with many people against it because they're concerned about what natural gas drilling could be doing to their water. But people today were making a case for the Marcellus Shale because of the job...