The Environmental Commission of the Legislative Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday to prohibit the exploration and exploitation of gas and oil in Costa Rica. The bill will now be up for discussion ...

One of Costa Rica’s three railroads had been electrified and had some obsolete equipment. President Jimenez presented Senora Sacasa with two oil-burning locomotives, used but serviceable ...

President Rodrigo Chaves has announced that there is substantial interest from multiple investors in establishing a oil refinery in Limón, with the aim of creating jobs and reducing fuel costs in ...

Take, for instance, the Recope Oil Refinery project announced in 2007, which was intended to upgrade Costa Rica’s energy infrastructure. The project encountered numerous delays and was ...

GUANACASTE PROVINCE, Costa Rica — Andrea Meza stood before a vast ... Other environmental initiatives, including a bill to permanently ban oil and gas exploration, continued to face intense ...

Denmark and Costa Rica used U.N. climate talks as the site to launch an international alliance grouping governments that have committed to move their economies away from oil and gas production.

For two months now, Costa Rica has been reeling from unprecedented ... attacks in the U.S. that forced the shutdown of an oil pipeline that supplies the East Coast, halted production of ...