Trump administration aims to auction offshore oil leases along U.S. coastlines that have been off-limits for decades

The Trump administration is proposing to auction offshore oil drilling leases across new portions of the U.S. coast as soon ...

Trump plans to open almost all of US coast to offshore drilling

The Trump administration is readying a proposal to open almost all U.S. coastal waters to new offshore oil drilling despite ...

Millions in new projects set to boost Panhandle economic growth

Recently, the Gulf Coast Board met and approved one grant award and voted to move forward with final negotiations on several ...
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Pemex pipeline spills into Veracruz’s Pantepec River, complicating flood cleanup

It didn’t say when the damage to the pipeline and the resultant oil spill occurred. Torrential rain fell in Veracruz and the ...

10 years since Aliso Canyon: Disaster was wake-up call for U.S. on dangers of underground gas

Ten years after the Aliso Canyon disaster, the worst natural gas blowout in U.S. history, some progress has been made but ...

UWF's $130M 'Research for Tomorrow' campus expansion could get underway this year

"Little organization with a lot of money," earmarks $32 million for UWF research hub and $3.25 million for "high-skill, ...

Pemex pipeline spill contaminates Mexican river after torrential rains

Mexico’s state-run oil company, Pemex, reports that recent torrential rains have caused a pipeline spill along the Pantepec ...

USF study finds more sick fish in oil spill area than rest of Gulf of Mexico

A government-funded survey of the entire Gulf of Mexico last summer found more sick fish in the area of the 2010 oil spill than anywhere else, according to the top University of South ...

Gulf Oil Spill Worst in U.S. Maritime History; Drilling Postponed

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.