In Oregon, a company is offering checks to residents if they promise not to complain about noise from turbines.

An effort known as a static kill is part of a two-pronged strategy to kill the well in the Gulf of Mexico by cementing it shut from above and below.

As signs of oil on the gulf surface recede, biologists worry about hidden impacts to marine life.

The Pennsylvania racetrack, site of a 500-mile Nascar Sprint Cup race, is the world’s largest sports facility operating on power from the sun.

The focus is more on long-term recovery now that some of the urgent demands of the spill are diminishing.

The French energy giant cited costs related to its U.S. nuclear ventures and the construction of its latest generation nuclear power plant in France, which will be delayed until 2014.

For decades, the oil industry, farming and lax oversight have contributed to a dead zone in the gulf.

The oil is clearing much faster than expected, but concern remains over the unseen effects.

An American oil spill consultant suggests the Chinese spill was larger than the government admits.

Christopher Monckton, the Third Viscount Monckton of Benchley, debated Eric Bates, executive editor of Rolling Stone magazine, on the topic of climate change.

Video scenes of the latest slaughter of marine mammals in a bloody cove are interpreted very differently by different factions.

Even as a boy scout's mother was struggling to keep warm, she could appreciate what she had been missing by staying in hotels.

Enbridge was warned in January by federal regulators about insufficient monitoring of the pipeline that officials say leaked more than one million gallons of oil into a major waterway this week.

The expected choice of Robert Dudley as BP’s next chief executive shows a recognition that the spill will be a top concern for some time.

By halving sulfur levels in No. 4 heating oil, New York City could make a dent in air pollution and respiratory illnesses.

Dozens of bioengineering laboratories are trying to create superalgae that can be used to make diesel or jet fuel.

A great climate scientist is defined by his successful forecast of warming and his acceptance that another forecast was flawed.

Will half of BP's spill escrow fund come out of government coffers?

Trotting out experts in medicine and forestry to argue that biomass generation could endanger human health.

The disaster in the gulf has strengthened opposition to oil drilling in California.