The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified that the Maryland Department of the Environment was mishandling a key ...

WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is extending the public comment deadline for a proposed seabed lease sale ...

Proposed measure opposes new federal oil leases in eastern Gulf, citing risks to local economy and environment ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is planning to hold an oil and gas lease sale for blocks of seabed off the U.S. Gulf Coast before the end of the year. According to a proposed notice of sale ...

The Department of Interior (DOI) is proposing to reopen up to 82%of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska ...

A shrimp trawler in the Pamlico Sound. Photo by P. Vankevich/Ocracoke Observer “Don’t you get tired of the fight?” someone asked after the June 17 Ocracoke Civic & Business Association ...

The Gulf of America Outer Continental Shelf spans approximately 160 million acres and is estimated to contain around 48 billion barrels of undiscovered, recoverable oil and 141 trillion cubic feet of ...

In 2023, a United Nations commission associated with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued recommendations that supported most of Russia’s claims to extend its outer continental ...

The Interior Department on Wednesday revealed estimates of a massive supply of fossil fuels under US public lands, a finding that would support the Trump administration’s bid to open more federally ...

The outer continental shelf leases include 13 blocks in the Walker Ridge area, 9 blocks in the Mississippi Canyon area and 18 blocks in the East Breaks area.

This comes after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced it has reopened consideration of the national Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas leasing program for offshore oil and gas ...