A federal court on Monday rejected Transocean’s request to dismiss subpoenas for records tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.  More »

Power has been restored to two fuel storage pools at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which was severely damaged in the 2011 tsunami. But concerns linger about the fragility of the facility, which still runs on makeshift equipment.  More »

Oil and gas field services and drilling workers were killed on the job in Texas more than those in any other profession, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis.  More »

The U.S. Department of Interior is investigating whether mining companies are skirting royalty rules as they increase exports of coal to Asia.  More »

A Hearst Newspapers investigation found that over a decade of deregulation, the frequency of outages has crept up, maintenance of aging infrastructure has been deferred and line workers have been laid off. Meanwhile, CEOs’ salaries have risen an average of 150 percent.  More »

Leading House Democrats are broadening their probe into what caused a fatal offshore production platform fire by scrutinizing the contractor working on the facility when it ignited last month.  More »

Before last week’s fatal fire at one of Black Elk Energy’s oil production platforms, the five-year-old firm had racked up more than 300 documented mistakes and violations offshore, according to federal regulators who cracked down on the Houston-based company Wednesday.  More »

Congressional Republicans grilled the Interior Department’s top internal investigator and suggested her involvement in a government offshore safety panel undermined her independence.  More »

A congressional panel today voted to authorize subpoenas for Interior Department officials who could shed light on why a government report falsely implied a panel of engineers and oil industry experts backed a moratorium on deep-water drilling.  More »

The anticipated showdown between House Republicans and Interior Department officials over the Obama administration’s decision to temporarily halt deep-water drilling after the 2010 Gulf oil spill won’t materialize today.  More »

The Chemical Safety Board said today it is on track to issue a final report on the well blowout and explosion that killed 11 rig workers in early 2013, and it could issue recommendations to prevent a similar disaster as soon as this August. The independent federal agency, which has probed more than 50 industrial accidents, including the lethal Texas City refinery explosion in 2005 is the last remaining panel still investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster, following the conclusion of several other probes.  More »

A series of flawed decisions by companies working on BP’s failed Macondo well, shoddy oversight by federal regulators and a “misplaced trust” in emergency equipment guarding the site led to the lethal Deepwater Horizon disaster, the National Academy of Engineering concluded today.  More »