Sometimes, it's essential to flare gas for safety reasons. Oil collects underground in reservoirs and gas accumulates around it, which has to be drawn off before the oil is drilled. If there are ...

Major oil companies are not declaring a ... Hussein Faleh/BBC Gas flaring has become the backdrop to children's lives in Basra In the Basra region, new cases of all types of cancer rose by 20% ...

In one of the last actions of the outgoing Biden-Harris Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S.

SANTA FE, N.M.— More oil and gas wells have been built near New Mexico schools in the past year, but Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is ignoring pleas to establish statewide health buffer zones to better ...

This report links the shortfall to the failure of oil and gas companies to pay the actual amount in penalties as well as the ...