Jackie Chesnutt, who lives outside San Angelo, is tired of pollution from nearly inactive wells. Experts say Texas rules allow companies to defer plugging wells for far too long.

An oil well explosion in Nacogdoches County caused evacuations and road closures on Monday night. The Sheriff’s Office says ...

Familiar adversaries are lining up for and against a state bill that, by proposing to make it harder for oil companies to ...

OCHELATA, Okla. — According to recent figures, Oklahoma has more than 20,000 abandoned oil wells, with many of those leaking harmful pollutants. Ann Packard said her family has owned the land she ...

State regulators approved a proposal to drill oil wells less than a mile from the Aurora Reservoir, clearing the way for ...

A Times-Picayune analysis found that more than 3,600 oil wells drilled on land or in marsh are now in open water. To do so, the newspaper used the U.S. Geological Survey’s historical shoreline maps.

Mikeal Berthelot, Jr., was navigating the mouth of the Mississippi River in his shrimp boat, a stretch of water he’d traversed many times before. The water was calm. The sun beat down. His deckhand ...