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Oil leak off Louisiana coast contained but clean up continues, Coast Guard says
After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard ...
After ten days, crews have contained oil spill off Louisiana coast
A U.S. Coast Guard-led operation has contained an oil well's uncontrolled discharge into Louisiana's Garden Island Bay after ...
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Louisiana could get hundreds of millions in offshore federal revenue in bill before Congress
The big-budget reconciliation measurel going through Congress could pump much more money into coastal protection in Louisiana ...
15 years after BP oil spill, marine recovery on Louisiana coast brings hope but not full trust
In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.
Oil has been discharging into the Gulf of Mexico for a week
The U.S. Coast Guard and other groups have been trying to contain a discharge in Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana.
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Gulf of TBD: The crusade to change a 500-year-old name
As federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, other entities ...
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Lone Republican Votes Against Bill Renaming Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico." However, Representative Marjorie ...
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Lawmakers approve bill to require Gulf of America be taught in schools
State lawmakers gave final approval to require that high schoolers be taught to refer to the body of water south of America ...