...exploratory wells in Arctic waters.The capping stack looks like a giant spark plug and is designed to kill an undersea oil well blowout by providing a metal-to-metal seal on a malfunctioning blowout preventer.Shell is sending the capping stack...

...Salazar announced he was ending the deep-water drilling moratorium imposed in April following the BP deep-water oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Salazar said at the time he was imposing a drilling suspension on drilling in the Beaufort...

The following editorial first appeared in the Miami Herald: Ever since the April 20 Gulf of Mexico Macondo oil well blowout and Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, which killed 11 men, the three mega corporations involved have stood in a triangle...