gulf of mexico

GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) — For years, volunteers have counted birds on the Gulf Coast every Christmas for the National Audubon Society.

. (Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter today made the following comments on the U.S. Senate floor following reports that the Interior Department, despite its claims of being understaffed and underfunded, completed a technical assistance workshop on offshore oil and gas regulatory programs for the government of Papua New Guinea this week.

The co-chairman of a presidential commission on the Gulf oil spill says there is widespread belief that "breathtakingly inept" mistakes by BP, Haliburton and Transocean led to the disaster.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The crew of an offshore drilling unit rescued four people after the small plane they were in crashed into the Gulf of Mexico 170 miles south of New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Obama administration's decision this week not to open up some of the Gulf Coast and Atlantic seaboard to new drilling is worrying residents who wonder if the industry will ever thrive again in U.S. waters.

The Obama administration announced today its NOT moving forward on a plan to allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.

Don Briggs, the president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association tells KPEL news the new target date for oil companies to go back to work and drill deep in the gulf has been pushed back to the first quarter next year.  "I'm not even sure if that will happen or if contracts will be honored," Briggs adds...