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An offshore gas terminal is lit up amid the Atlantic Ocean as houses lay on the beachfront between the sea and the Senegal River, bottom, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Jan. 18, 2023.

Europe looks to Senegal for new energy supply. But what’s in it for the Senegalese?

Energy

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many European countries have been trying to find ways to reduce their dependence on Russian energy. One place they’re starting to look is West Africa, where Senegal and Mauritania are capitalizing on recent discoveries of natural gas. But many locals are wondering how much they will benefit from their own country’s resources.

A natural gas flare on an oil well pad burns as the sun sets outside Watford City, North Dakota

EPA’s rollback of methane regulation is bad for the climate — and energy companies

Energy

Don’t Forget Us: Photographing the Oil Spill

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Takeouts: Gulf oil spill threatens Democrat’s climate bill, listener responses

Conflict & Justice
Deepwater Horizon on fire

BP’s $18.7 billion Deepwater Horizon settlement provides relief, but perhaps not justice

Environment
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"Kayaktivists" demonstrate in Seattle's Elliot Bay against the arrival last month of the Shell's massive Polar Pioneer oil rig, rising behind them above the city's waterfront. Shell is using Seattle as a staging area for its new offshore drilling operatio

The road to Arctic oil drilling runs through Seattle. People there are trying to block it.

Environment

President Obama has given Shell the green light to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean, but activists and politicians in Seattle are throwing up as many stop signs as they can as the drilling rig preps there for its journey north. It’s the latest flashpoint in the growing international anti-fossil fuel movement.

Sang Ho and crew paint his shrimping boat for shrimping season. He now also farms in addition to shrimp fishing.

How anti-communist Vietnamese refugees signed up for a cooperative farm

Economics

Vietnamese shrimpers in New Orleans were doing well until the BP oil spill in 2010 closed the Gulf of Mexico and devastated their businesses. To make ends meet, many in the staunchly anti-communist community adopted an ironic but effective model: a cooperative farm.

Britain's National Gallerly sells its soul to the villainous "Man from Shell" is this recent guerilla theater presentation by the activist group Art Not Oil. Fossil fuel industry support of cultural institutions has become increasingly controversial in th

For these activists, oil and art just don’t mix

Environment

After scoring some big victories in the US in 2014, the movement to get institutions to cut their ties to fossil fuel companies is broadening its focus in the UK to include big name museums and even toy companies.

The World

Commission: BP, Transocean, Halliburton to Blame for Gulf Oil Spill

Environment

Last November, we reported on a commission appointed by the president to investigate the causes of last summer’s BP oil disaster. At the time, the commission said there was really no one to blame for the accident. However, the commission’s final findings contradict that early sentiment, saying the accident could have been avoided. In an […]

The World

Documents reveal congressional safety concerns prior to BP disaster

Global Politics

Joining us to talk about the batch of 5,400 documents is New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau, as well as Kerry Seaton-Stewart, owner of the famous Willie Mae’s Scotch House restaurant, in New Orleans.

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