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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Chevron , the No. 2 U.S. oil company, said on Thursday it filed an appeal against an injunction banning the company and its drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. from operating in Brazil while civil and criminal charges over a November oil spill are judged. The company is also actively seeking to …

LAWSUIT FILED: Nine people have sued Chevron Corp. over a California refinery fire that sent thousands to hospitals with respiratory issues and contributed to higher gasoline prices on the West Coast.

Nine people have sued Chevron Corp. over a California refinery fire that sent thousands to hospitals with respiratory issues and contributed to higher gasoline prices on the West Coast.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved rules to reduce emissions from a coal-fired power plant outside Las Vegas, despite calls by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to shut it down.

The EPA’s “war on coal” has become a major campaign talking point for Republicans in Senate battleground states.

Federal regulators have approved a new measure meant to help turn Montana's Big Sky Country into Clear Sky Country by forcing industrial plants to cut pollutants that make hazy skies over national parks and wilderness areas.

Georgia Power has launched a new consumer website as part of the company's solar energy initiatives. The site, found at www.georgiapower.com/solar, is intended to help business and residential consumers decide whether solar energy is "right for them," according to the company's Wednesday announcement.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian offshore engineer Subsea 7 won a $600 million contract from Chevron Overseas Congo Ltd for development work at the Lianzi field offshore Congo and Angola, it said on Thursday.

The government is on the verge of approving a grain mainly used as livestock feed to make a cleaner version of ethanol.

A lot of people are betting on solar energy being the path to a cleaner future and Bill Gates is betting the toilet of the future for the developing world—and perhaps all of us—will be solar powered, reports Reuters.

Shares of some coal companies fell Wednesday as a drop in the price of natural gas futures heightened the competition between the two energy sectors for customers.

IGNITION SOURCE: Investigators probing the cause of a blaze at Chevron's Richmond refinery in Northern California are looking at heaters and responding emergency vehicles as possible ignition sources for the huge vapor cloud that spewed from a leaky pipe.

Investigators probing the cause of a blaze at Chevron's Richmond refinery in Northern California are looking at heaters and responding emergency vehicles as possible ignition sources for the massive vapor cloud that spewed from a leaky pipe.

Investigators probing the cause of a blaze at Chevron's Richmond refinery are looking at heaters and responding emergency vehicles as possible ignition sources for the massive vapor cloud that spewed from an old, leaky pipe.

Gas prices remain unchanged on average in West Virginia this week.

Exxon Mobil Corp. says it has detected an oil spill along the shoreline of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta.

Utah's average gas price is down six cents from last month, ranking the state's gas 4th cheapest in the nation.

Investigators trying to get close enough to a pipe blamed for a fire at Chevron's refinery that sent thousands of people to the hospital and contributed to higher gasoline prices have been hampered by damage to structural beams and ongoing hydrocarbon leaks, federal officials said.

American leaders have been talking about energy security since the 1973 Arab oil embargo made energy a national security issue, but the United States still lacks a comprehensive energy policy. Recent scientific studies show that the hot weather in the US of the past decade is not cyclical but related to the burning of fossil …

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - At least 90,000 metric tons (99,207 tons) of jet fuel are set to be shipped from Asia to the U.S. West Coast from late-August to fill a supply shortfall after a fire shut a crude unit at California's second-largest refinery, traders and shipbrokers said on Wednesday. Morgan Stanley and Chevron Corp …

An internal Chevron Corp. surveillance video shows a towering vapor cloud engulfing an area of its refinery for two minutes before it ignited into a volatile blaze, federal investigators said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The governors of North Carolina and Arkansas joined two of their Northeast peers on Tuesday in asking the federal government to temporarily suspend the ethanol quota, piling pressure on President Barack Obama to make a tough choice months before the election. The worst drought in 50 years has sent …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. governors asked the United States government on Tuesday to waive this year's mandate for making ethanol from corn, adding pressure on it to relieve meat producers from high corn prices spurred by the worst drought in more than 50 years. Governors Mike Beebe from Arkansas and Beverly Purdue …