gulf of mexico

NEW IBERIA, LA – With oil toppling $100 per barrel and nearing 2-1/2 year highs, Congressman Jeff Landry is once again demanding the President to end his de facto moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

WASHINGTON – United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today joined other members of Louisiana’s congressional delegation in signing and delivering a letter to President Obama, explaining reasons why it is in the best interests of both the Gulf Coast and national economies to end the ongoing de facto moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter today made the following statement outlining what he expected the president to address tonight in his State of the Union address.

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — The recent deaths of two manatees in northern Gulf of Mexico waters are being studied by staffers at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport.

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...