The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources recently held a hearing on the Marine Fisheries Habitat Protection Act, which ...

The Deepwater Horizon spill remains one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. More than 15 years later, ...

A House hearing on a bipartisan bill promoting the use of decommissioned offshore oil rigs as artificial reefs instead ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

Let’s say you hired a landscaper to work on your backyard. But they left their trash and broken tools scattered around your ...

A draft plan that proposes to expand oil and gas drilling, including seven areas in the Gulf of America, has been released by the Trump administration. The plan proposes expanding oil and gas drilling ...

Dubbed the “Marine Fisheries Habitat Protection Act,” the bill authored by Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) would attempt to ...

Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region under Republican efforts to ramp up U.S. fossil fuel ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region in coming years under Republican efforts to ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than officials believed and the federal government is offering to help industry giant BP contain the slick that is threatening ...