Gulf Coast

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Charles W. Boustany, Jr., (R-Southwest Louisiana), today called once again for the complete lifting of the de facto moratorium on offshore energy production, on the heels of the announcement that 13 energy producers will be allowed to resume drilling activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by the Obama administration yesterday to allow 13 companies to resume deep-water oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. That drilling was suspended after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion last year.

PORT SULPHUR, La. (AP) — This could be a gloomy Christmas for many people along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of the big BP oil spill.