The Bureau of Land Management's quarterly oil lease sales in Salt Lake City got off to a rocky start Monday. About 15 protesters showed up and four sat on the ground in front of the door with their arms locked, according to BLM.

An Obama-era ad hoc group scrutinizing the work of government offshore regulators is back to work after a yearlong hiatus.

A host of green groups filed a lawsuit today against NOAA Fisheries to halt energy exploration off the Atlantic Coast — an activity that hasn't happened there since the 1980s.

This spring's federal oil and gas lease sale in Nevada is poised to be the state's biggest in recent memory: 900,000 acres of desert land is on the auction block.

Portions of Texas and New Mexico's Permian Basin contain much more shale oil and natural gas resource potential than previously known, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report.