The appeal sent to the European Commission cites environmental concerns and security risks if the EU decides to lift the ban ...

By Stine Jacobsen and Kate Abnett COPENHAGEN/BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - Financial institutions and investors have urged the European Union to maintain its opposition to new Arctic oil and gas ...

Norway is putting pressure on the European Union to remove a moratorium on new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic where almost two thirds of its petroleum resources lie. Norwegian ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Seattle’s mayor and environmentalists have vowed to block Royal Dutch Shell PLC from parking two Arctic offshore drilling rigs on Seattle’s waterfront, an effort to thwart the ...

RE:PUBLIC reports the Trump administration aims to fast-track Arctic oil drilling by streamlining permit processes in ...

Alaska’s state-owned investment bank could get permission to start oil exploration work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as soon as the third quarter of this year, according to court documents ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The grounding of a petroleum drilling ship on a remote Alaska Island has refueled the debate about oil exploration in the U.S. Arctic Ocean, where critics for years have said ...

Congress is once again floating the idea of using projected oil and gas revenues from leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to offset rising deficits. But new lease sales in the Refuge aren’t ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell is parking two massive Arctic oil drilling rigs in Seattle’s waterfront before they head north. The first drill rig, the Polar Pioneer, arrived in Seattle ...