NJ.comLegislators renew fight against offshore oil drilling after Trump executive orderNJ.comBELMAR -- Legislators and environmental activists are hitting the reset button on a fight against offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean after President Donal …

U.S. News & World ReportBP Tries to Secure Leaking Oil and Natural Gas Well in AlaskaWall Street Journal (subscription)BP PLC is trying to bring a well in Alaska under control after the site began leaking oil and other hydrocarbons, the company said Saturd …

ENGINEERING.comTerahertz Spectroscope Shrinks from Tabletop to MicrochipENGINEERING.comDaniel Mittleman, a professor of engineering at Brown University, said the development was "a very innovative piece of work, and it potentially has a lot of impact. …

Calgary HeraldParker: Engineering firm Smith & Andersen shapes CalgaryCalgary HeraldScott Emans joined the Toronto engineering firm of Smith & Andersen in 1976 after graduating from the University of Waterloo. The company had secured a design contr …

HackadayThe Wright Flyer: Engineering And IteratingHackadayThe types of steps and missteps the Wright brothers took in developing the first practical airplane should be familiar to hackers. They started with a simple kite design and painstakingly added onl …

How engineering students are seeking to solve major food and water security problemsThe MIT TechHosted by the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS), the event b …

RTNorth Dakota Says Thousands of Barrels of Crude Oil Spilled into WaterwayWall Street JournalNorth Dakota regulators said Tuesday that nearly 75% of an estimated 4,200 barrels of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline has flowed into a creek, contaminating …

EcoWatchWeather Affects Oil Pipeline Spill Cleanup in North DakotaWall Street JournalBISMARCK, N.D.— A company with a history of oil field-related spills in North Dakota and Montana is being hampered by winter weather in its cleanup of a “significant” pipe …

EcoWatchWhy Are California Farmers Irrigating Crops With Oil Wastewater?EcoWatchIn the last three years, farmers in parts of California's Central Valley irrigated nearly 100,000 acres of food crops with billions of gallons of oil field wastewater possi …

Is ISIS Giving Up On Oil?OilPrice.comSince the Iraqi army drove out Islamic State forces from the oil-rich towns of Shargat and Qayyarah last month, ISIS has lost its ability to produce oil and profit from crude oil sales on the black market—but ISIS is pr …