Sustainable Energy Strategies Inc. (SESI) named a new vice president on Monday.

Lawmakers and environmental and public health groups lauded Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s (D-N.J.) work on toxic chemicals and pollution issues after learning of his death Monday.

Lautenberg was a staunch advocate of strengthening national toxic substances regulations and a vocal backer of the federal Superfund program, which is charged with cleaning up uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.

Members of the House Natural Resources Committee will meet on Thursday to discuss a draft bill that that would open parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to offshore drilling.

The draft bill from committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) would permit drilling off the coasts of South Carolina, Virginia and Southern California while reshuffling the Interior Department’s offshore drilling branch.

President Obama’s five-year offshore leasing plan, which runs through 2017, doesn’t allow drilling in those areas. Hastings’s bill would require Obama to submit a new plan integrating those zones.

Bloomberg reports Total SA's CEO says the French oil-and-gas firm didn't pay bribes for Iranian oil, despite paying $400 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges on the matter.

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at four oil-and-gas firms that could soon produce 1 million barrels of oil each day.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Economies (OPEC) plans to study the United States shale boom, Bloomberg reports.

A large wildfire sweeping through California is still days away from being brought under control, reports The Los Angeles Times.

The announcement from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration came late Friday as severe tornadoes struck Oklahoma.

The Sierra Club argues the effort could help Democrats win House and Senate seats next year.

Sean Parnell said federal regulations are preventing states from utilizing oil and gas reserves that could boost the national economy.

"We're not reinventing the wheel here," TransCanada Corp. CEO Russ Girling said of the controversial pipeline.

The discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat growing on a farm in Oregon has pushed Japan and South Korea to halt some imports of American wheat.

In addition, the European Union is encouraging its 27 member states to consider testing wheat imported from the U.S., following the discovery of the altered wheat, which had been developed by Monsanto but never approved for sale.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the discovery Thursday, but emphasized that no genetically modified wheat is for sale or being commercially produced in the U.S., and the Food and Drug Administration has said the altered wheat does not pose a threat to human health.

Nonetheless, South Korea said it was freezing its imports of American wheat until shipments can be tested — the results are likely to be available in the first week of June, according to The New York Times.