SCOTT THUMAN: Just outside of New Orleans we board the helicopter. Our destination: 140 miles out, into what’s now called the Gulf of America, to one of the oil and natural gas industry’s most ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) - In a legal setback for fossil fuel advocates, a federal court has invalidated a large offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, ruling Thursday ...

WASHINGTON— The D.C. District Court on Thursday found unlawful a 73-million acre offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico held by the Interior Department in March 2023. The court ruled in ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that the entire Gulf is under consideration for new offshore oil and gas lease sales SRIA officials raised concerns about potential ecological damage ...

Oil platforms are visible through the haze near the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Galveston, Texas, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. NEW ORLEANS — An ...

As part of the Trump’s administration’s effort to expand fossil fuel production in the United States, the Department of the Interior announced last week that it would accelerate the permitting process ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An expanse of Gulf Coast federal waters larger than the state of Colorado was unlawfully opened up for offshore drilling leases, according to a ruling by a federal judge, who said ...