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White House Lifts Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling

WASHINGTON (Oct. 12) --The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the six-month moratorium on deep water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that was imposed after the BP oil spill. The administration has been under heavy pressure from the industry and others in the region to lift the ban on grounds it has cost jobs and...

Greenpeace Activists in Chocolate Sauce Protest Deep-Water Drilling

(Oct. 4) -- Occasionally, you'll hear of people slathering themselves in chocolate sauce because they're feeling a bit kinky -- not because they're making a political statement. Bikini-clad activists in France covered themselves in fake oil to voice a simple message: Oil and water don't mix. Demonstrators from the...

BP Resumes 'Bottom Kill' to Seal Well by Weekend

(Sept. 14) -- BP's runaway oil well could be sealed off for good by the end of this week, after BP restarted drilling on a relief well that was halted for more than a month during the Gulf of Mexico's hurricane season. BP resumed drilling its relief well Monday for the first time since Aug. 10, when operations were...

After Gulf Blast, Drilling Ban Debate Intensifies

(Sept. 2) -- The explosion and fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has intensified the debate over the Obama administration's temporary ban on deepwater drilling in the gulf, even though the accident apparently did not involve drilling and the ban doesn't apply to the installation because it's in shallow...

BP Executive Pleads Fifth at Oil Spill Hearing

(Aug. 24) -- Constitutional right though it may be, the pesky Fifth Amendment -- specifically the clause against self-incrimination -- is once again slowing down the process of pinpointing exactly what caused the April 20 explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig. Fortunately, the Web is coming to the...