Patch placed on natural gas condensate leak that’s been spilling in Gulf of Mexico for weeks
August 1, 2024
A natural gas condensate leak that has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico just off the coast of Galveston has finally been stopped ...US tightens some offshore oil rig safety rules that had been loosened under Trump
August 22, 2023
The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized tighter rules for complex devices meant to prevent catastrophic blowouts on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, reversing ...A billion-dollar coastal project begins in Louisiana. Will it work as sea levels rise?
August 10, 2023
Nearly $3 billion in settlement money from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that devastated the Gulf Coast and killed hundreds of thousands of marine ...Firings at US weather and oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn
February 28, 2025
The federal weather and oceans agency touches peoples daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a ...Tar balls wash ashore on Florida beaches, but the source of the sticky black goo is a mystery
February 12, 2025
The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on South Florida beaches over the weekend, but so far ...The White House says it's a 'fact' that the Gulf of Mexico has been renamed. Is that right?
January 7, 2025
For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the Gulf of ...