Today, you probably think about oil companies most when you’re paying to fill your tank. But the fortunes made from oil ...

For over 30 years, Rockefeller had applied his uncanny shrewdness, thorough intelligence, and patient vision to the creation ...

For 4,000 years, the world’s biggest fortunes have followed the industries that societies couldn’t function without. Olive ...

In the mid-19th century, the world faced a serious energy crisis due to a sharp decline in whale oil, which was used as ...

The Rockefeller Foundation, set up by John D. Rockefeller in 1913, has decided to divest from fossil fuels and not make any new investment in the industry, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, ...

Two great-great-grandchildren of Standard Oil Co. founder John D. Rockefeller Sr. are pouring millions of dollars into an effort aimed at supporting people on the front lines fighting new oil and gas ...

The Rockefeller Foundation, a 107-year-old philanthropy founded by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr., has a $5 billion endowment. And that foundation is divesting from the oil that created its wealth ...

John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil in 1870, became the richest man in the United States—the world’s first billionaire. At the same time, he was also the country’s most generous ...

While large tech companies are currently feeling the heat from regulators and Congress, over a century ago, the trustbusters had their sights on Big Oil. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Big ...