In a victory for anti-drilling advocates, oil and gas industry lawyers said Thursday the industry will not use airgun arrays this year to conduct seismic surveys of the ocean floor off the Atlantic ...

GREENBELT, Md.— NRDC and partner groups Healthy Gulf, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the Surfrider Foundation sued the National Marine Fisheries Service ...

Regional levee commissioners agreed Thursday to use $30,000 worth of seismic testing to investigate potential trouble spots in the system. The work, which involves dropping weights on a levee section ...

Seismic testing appears to be dead in the water for now as companies involved in litigation about the controversial oil and gas exploration method said they won't pursue it this year off the Atlantic ...

A roaring push for seismic testing in waters off the coastal South seems to be headed toward a noiseless, harmless end — for now, anyway. Environmentalists suing to protect endangered right whales ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WSAV/WCBD) – Oil exploration companies say they are giving up efforts to do seismic testing off the South Carolina coast. The companies had two years to prove they should be able to ...

Seismic tests that are a precursor to offshore oil drilling will not take place in U.S. Atlantic waters this year, and likely far longer, attorneys for environmental groups that sued the federal ...

A lawsuit contesting permits for companies to search for oil and gas off the coast of South Carolina is drawing to a close as the federal government says there's no way to extend the permits in the ...

WASHINGTON — South Carolina environmentalists were disappointed last month when President Barack Obama excluded the state's coastline from protection against offshore drilling. These same activists ...

Regional levee commissioners agreed Thursday to use $30,000 worth of seismic testing to investigate potential trouble spots in the system. The work, which involves dropping weights on a levee section ...