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More than 500 workers at a Chevron refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area officially went on strike at Monday morning.

The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to top executives of ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil giants, charging that the companies have not turned over documents needed by the committee to investigate allegations that the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global warming

House Oversight Committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., blasted Exxon, Shell, Chevron and BP executives for knowingly misinforming the public on the impact of their products on climate change. “For far too long, Big Oil has escaped accountability for its central role for bringing our planet to the brink of a climate catastrophe. That ends today.”

Top executives of ExxonMobil and other oil giants sparred with congressional Democrats over allegations that the industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global warming.

Congressional Democrats are calling top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants to testify about what lawmakers say is a long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming.

An investigation is underway for a leak that was spilling five gallons of petroleum product a minute into the San Francisco Bay Tuesday afternoon at the Chevron refinery long wharf in Richmond.

No one was hurt when a lightning bolt blasted a crater into a Fort Worth parking lot Wednesday morning, authorities say.

An alleged serial robber who is being accused of robbing six gas stations and convenience stores was arrested by the FBI early Wednesday morning – just two days after surveillance captured the suspect robbing a Pembroke Pines gas station.

The FBI is investigating an armed robbery that was caught on camera at a Pembroke Pines gas station and may be linked to a similar crime in Miramar.

Joe Biden entered the Democratic primary promising “from day one” to reject campaign cash from lobbyists. “I work for you — not any industry,” he tweeted. Yet hours after his April campaign kickoff, the former vice president went to a fundraiser at the home of a lobbying executive. And in the months since, he’s done it again and again.

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Surveillance footage showed a father and his child being carjacked at gunpoint at a gas station in South Miami.

Family and friends held a vigil Thursday night for one of the four people killed in a violent two-city crime spree in Orange County.

A suspect is in custody after killing at least four people and injuring two others apparently targeted at random in a deadly stabbing and robbery spree across two cities in Orange County, California, Wednesday, authorities said. The 33-year-old man from Garden Grove started the rampage just after 4 p.m. and robbed more than half a dozen businesses during a two-hour...

When science teacher Diana Allen set out to teach climate change, a subject she’d never learned in school, she fell into a rabbit’s hole of misinformation: Many resources presented online as educational material were actually junk. “It is a pretty scary topic to take on,” said Allen, a teacher at Sanford Junior High School, in southern Maine. “There are some...