“Petroleum” on The Daily Caller

China, powered by years of rapid economic growth, is now the world’s biggest energy consumer, knocking the U.S. off a perch it held for more than a century, according to new data from the International Energy Agency. (more)

Gulf Coast residents reported serious economic, environmental and emotional fallout from the BP oil spill, with vast majorities concerned about long-term negative effects on the area’s tourism, seafood safety and more. (more)

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ABOARD THE RESOLUTE, 40 miles off Louisiana — Workers on surface ships continued to flare gas and oil on Wednesday at the site of BP’s runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico after officials announced that a critical pressure test on the well would be postponed. (more)

The Interior Department has issued a new offshore drilling moratorium that is different, but not very different, from the one blocked recently by a New Orleans federal judge. (more)

The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission will hold its first public hearings in New Orleans starting Monday. (more)

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late Thursday afternoon against the Obama administration in the ongoing legal battle over a moratorium on drilling for oil in offshore waters. The quick ruling came as a surprise, since Judge W. Eugene Davis had told the overflowing courtroom at the conclusion of the hearing that the decision would be handed down early next week. (more)

Less than four months after President Barack Obama took office, his new administration received a forceful warning about the dangers of offshore oil drilling. (more)

When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at sea in American history, it was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Registering there allowed the rig’s owner to significantly reduce its American taxes. (more)

Last month, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour told Fox News that tar balls washing up on beaches are not cause for alarm. Anywhere from 250,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil seep through the ocean floor and into the Gulf of Mexico every year, Barbour said.  It’s natural to have a few tar balls. Mississippi is used to it. (more)

Florida has long fought to prevent oil drilling anywhere near its white sandy beaches. But as the state continues to deal with oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill washing up on its shores, it faces a new threat: deepwater drilling in nearby Cuban waters. (more)

Tucker Carlson, TheDC’s editor-in-chief, discussed the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill, specifically the fact that the world’s largest skimming vessel is waiting for clearance from federal officials to begin work in the Gulf of Mexico. (more)

After our government claimed that we did not need or could not obtain larger ships to skim the Gulf oil spill, a giant-capacity skimming ship has arrived in U.S. waters.  Yet our government has left us wondering whether it will permit the ship to join the cleanup effort. (more)

The oil that’s flooded into the Gulf of Mexico has created big concerns about the environmental and economic damage. Another serious outcome has gotten far less attention: peak oil. (more)

In addition to the fishermen and hoteliers whose livelihoods have been devastated by BP’s hemorrhaging undersea oil well, another group of Gulf Coast residents is beginning to suffer: the tens of thousands of workers like Ronald Brown who run the equipment or serve in support roles on deepwater oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. (more)

Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson is reporting damning new details about the Obama administration’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The story includes evidence that top administration officials hid their agencies’ estimates about the true nature of the spill from the public. It also shows in painstaking detail how aloof Obama and the White House were during the weeks immediately following the spill. (more)

A New Orleans federal judge presiding over lawsuits related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said he sold his investment in companies linked to the disaster to avoid any appearance he might be biased. (more)

President Obama’s ban of deepwater drilling in the Gulf Coast will likely cost tens of thousands of jobs and could even cancel out the private employment gains reported by the government for the month of May. (more)

Slightly more than 31 percent of the U.S. federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico are closed to fishing because of the offshore oil spill, regulators said. (more)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP’s stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it Tuesday as the federal government announced criminal and civil investigations into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP engineers, meanwhile, tried to recover from a failed attempt to stop the gusher with an effort that will initially make the leak worse. (more)