The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

Then there are the industrial tar pits, better known as oil sands, tar sands and bituminous sands. And, to no one's surprise, they're of great interest to energy companies. But just like the name ...

A jury found a climate-change activist guilty of criminal trespass and felony criminal mischief for his part in last year’s four-state effort to shut down pipelines carrying tar-sands oil from Canada.

A flesh-filled spectacle that marked the 20th year Portlanders have come together for this mass protest and celebration.

Some experts foresee dire consequences: shortages, price spikes, economic disruption, and a desperate push to wrest oil from "unconventional" sources such as tar sands, oil shale, or coal.

particularly the tar sands oil carried by the pipeline with which they interfered," the 12-page opinion states. The district court previously granted the activists' request to present evidence on the ...

Despite promises of a “robust conversation” from the moderator, a panel discussion titled “Examining the Impact of Bill C-59” ...

It's pretty common knowledge - especially if you're the type to regularly visit sites such as AutoblogGreen and its ilk - that it's simply cheaper to drive a mile on electrical power than on gasoline.

But to a group of Indigenous environmental activists familiar with Walz’s record in Minnesota—particularly their view he ...

We won't run out of coal anytime soon, or the largely untapped deposits of tar sands and oil shale. But it's clear that the carbon dioxide spewed by coal and other fossil fuels is warming the ...

If Line 5 continues to operate, there will be an oil spill. It’s not a matter of if, but when. The result: Thousands of miles of our beaches contaminated by sticky, black, Canadian tar-sands oil, ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...