Underwater seismic testing — a precursor to offshore oil drilling that environmental advocates worry disturbs marine wildlife— will not take place this year off the Atlantic Coast, according to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After his recent remarks about resuming nuclear testing, President Trump told "60 Minutes" "we're the only country that doesn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Unprecedented. That's how earthquake engineers describe today's seismic test at the University at Buffalo. Most simulated earthquake tests feature neither full-scale structures nor ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — In Tom McCall Waterfront Park on the northwest side of the Burnside Bridge, engineers began drilling a 125-foot test shaft as part of crucial seismic testing for Portland's earthquake ...