XTO Energy, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), is under investigation by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) after a 13,000 gallon hydraulic fracturing fluid spill at XTO Energy's natural gas drilling site in Penn Township, Lycoming County, PA.

An independent panel of technical experts released its interim report today, finding that BP and its contractors ignored clear warning signs foretelling the disaster at BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. 

The Pittsburgh City Council this week unanimously adopted a first-in-the-nation ordinance banning corporations from drilling for natural gas within city limits, citing the threats to drinking water and public health posed by hydraulic fracturing methods used widely by drilling companies to extract

Joel Francis, a Marine Corps veteran and senior at Cal State Los Angeles, has issued a debate challenge to Koch Industries' billionaire CEO Charles Koch on his support for the Prop 23 attack on California's climate and clean energy progress.

A group of 34 Nobel Prize winners, including many of the most prominent researchers in the physical sciences, wrote to President Obama urging him to lobby Congress to raise research and development funding for clean technology by $150 billion over ten years in the climate and energy bill before

Biofuels have garnered much attention recently as a result of the renewed commitment by the U.S. government, including a new U.S.

David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers bankrolling the front groups behind the Tea Party and climate denial movement, have added another 'cause' to their philanthropic endeavors, d