Faced with iced-in Arctic waters and failure to secure U.S. Coast Guard approval of its oil-spill barge, Royal Dutch Shell* is ratcheting down its plan to drill as many as five exploratory wells this ...

Shell ended 2012 the way it carried itself the entire year: with utter incompetence. From The New York Times: One of Shell Oil’s two Arctic drilling rigs is beached on an island in the Gulf of Alaska, ...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a case that strikes at the core of corporate social responsibility, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell). The Kiobel plaintiffs allege that Shell was ...

"Shell screwed up in 2012 and we're not going to let them screw up when they try to drill in the Arctic again," Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told reporters today, releasing the findings of a ...