oil industry

A pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek.
Two days after the U.N.'s dire warning on climate change, Republicans gave fossil fuel executives a pat on the back and a pass on saving the planet.
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) is known for using her whiteboard to take down powerful people on Capitol Hill, but she did not need it to bulldoze an oil executive.
If BP walks away from the holdings completely it could write down up to $25 billion, it said.
The GOP is doing the bidding of Big Oil, using the Ukraine crisis to push for more domestic oil and gas production.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee will subpoena several companies to obtain documents as part of an ongoing probe into climate disinformation.
Three oil giants suffered separate blows in one day, marking what one analyst called “the start of a new era” for the industry.
In the 1970s, the EPA allowed chemical companies to dump toxic waste into the deep sea. Now, oil giants are drilling right on top of it.
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) is known for using her whiteboard to take down powerful people on Capitol Hill, but she did not need it to bulldoze an oil executive.
The nonprofit consortium that oversees much of the nation's building codes just gave the construction and gas industries more control over the process.