AMY GOODMAN: The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay a $15.5 million settlement to avoid a trial over its alleged involvement in human rights violations in the Niger Delta. The case was ...

The complaint alleged that officials from Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary, asked government troops to shoot villagers protesting against the construction of ...

Royal Dutch Shell is opposing moves to overhaul Europe's carbon trading scheme after the crucial climate change summit in Copenhagen in December. Companies such as EDF Energy and E.ON, wanting to ...

A boat guide drives a speed boat as oil slick splashes on the water through the Bodo creek in Ogoniland near Nigeria's oil hub city of Port Harcourt December 4, 2012. Despite billions of dollars worth ...

HOUSTON, Dec. 23--Shell Oil Co. canceled its exploratory drilling program for 2009 in Alaska's Beaufort Sea, a region in which the company invested $44 million as recently as 2005. Instead, Shell said ...