gulf of mexico

Ernesto's current forecast track shows it possibly becoming a hurricane next week as it heads toward the Gulf of Mexico.

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Shrimpers are worried for their jobs.

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Worries continue over the low oxygen levels.

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The Coast Guard say the pilot's body by divers.

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A funeral service for the Gulf. Members of Occupy NOLA say the Gulf of Mexico was murdered by BP and others linked to the disaster that dumped massive amounts of oil into it nearly two years ago.

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State officials and the federal government are at odds again over the Gulf of Mexico. The Fed wants Louisiana to put the area known as the "dead zone" in the Gulf back onto a national list of polluted water bodies.

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Great news for the oil and gas industry! President Obama announces a new oil and gas lease sale that will make 38-million acres in the central Gulf of Mexico available for drilling.

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KPEL's Jeremy Lawrence chats with Congressman Jeff Landry about today's meeting with federal drilling regulators concerning the slow pace of issuing permits to drill in the Gulf. They also discuss Presidential politics as well.

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A bill that calls for 80 percent of BP penalties to go toward restoring the Gulf of Mexico has moved onto the full U.S. Senate.

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Two of our locally elected officials tell President Obama to speed up the drilling permit process.

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Two of the four Louisiana oil workers have been found in the gulf.

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Search and rescue efforts continue for 10 offshore workers who fled from a damaged liftboat in the Bay of Campeche after Tropical Storm Nate cut a devastating path in the Gulf of Mexico.

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