Steven Mufson

Cities and towns across the country are rewriting local building codes so that new homes and offices would be blocked from using natural gas.

The company is shrinking its oil and gas business, revving up offshore wind power and developing solar and battery storage.

One of the world's biggest oil and gas companies Tuesday mapped out how it plans to navigate the next decade by radically cutting back on its oil and gas business.

Companies leading the hunt for ways to skim carbon dioxide from the air are attracting interest from big deep-pocketed corporations.

The order will affect Citgo, the Venezuelan-owned, Houston-based oil company, and Valero, the American oil refiner that is the largest in the United States.

This weekend, 13 countries will attempt to act as one and come to an agreement to curb oil production and prop up prices, but the cartel is a fractious lot whose members want the others to cut production without cutting their own.

The French interior minister said that police on Thursday foiled a terrorist plot by arresting a man believed to be at "an advanced stage" of planning an attack on French soil.

After 34 years at Shell, Marvin Odum talks about carbon taxes, divestment drives and a costly dry hole in Alaska’s Arctic.

Shell's hunt for oil on the Arctic frontier has run up against the extremes of nature and climate change politics.

The biggest lease owner in Canada's oil sands isn't one of the well-known international oil giants. It's a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David.

Two years after a blowout on BP's Macondo well killed 11 men and triggered the largest oil spill in U.S. history, oil companies are again plying the Gulf of Mexico.