At the shipyard of Metal Shark Boats in Franklin, Louisiana, workers are cutting through the skeletons of aluminum ships 100 feet long, suspended in sheds the size of airplane hangars. “They’re built ...

First Gulf oil and gas lease sale since 2023 drew 219 bids across 1.02 million acres. Auction held under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, mandating 30 offshore sales in 15 years. High bids totaled ...

Reversing Biden administration policies that halted offshore leasing, prompting lawsuits and restricting oil and natural gas development, the Trump administration is expanding offshore capabilities.

Several environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the federal government's planned sale of 80 million acres of the Gulf for oil and gas drilling leases. They claim the sale would violate one ...

A federal agency’s recommendations on how to protect endangered and threatened marine species, including the Rice’s whale, Gulf sturgeon, and loggerhead sea turtles, from the effects of oil and gas ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three months ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico. Past ...