The executive order aims to dismantle safeguards put in place under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law historically used by presidents to protect U.S. coastal waters from oil and gas ...

Before President Donald Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, who joked on his Comedy Central show in 2010 that the body of water should ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was the largest marine oil spill in the petroleum industry. Scientists troubled after ...

The law authorizes the president to withdraw offshore areas from oil and gas leasing, as eight administrations, including the first Trump administration, have routinely done. However, the law does not ...

Two conservation coalitions are asking a federal court to keep protections ordered by former President Joe Biden.

BP Completes Relief Well, Now on to ‘Bottom Kill’ BP sensors detect that the relief well has connected with the original Macando well 18,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf ...

The suit, filed in Alaska, is likely to be the first of many challenging the administration’s goal of expanding fossil fuel ...

Conservation groups today filed the first environmental lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect oceans from offshore drilling. One set of groups is challenging an illegal order by ...

Stephen Colbert argued he should be given some credit for President Donald Trump's decision to call the Gulf of Mexico the ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has cited President Trump’s claim of a national energy emergency to speed up permits for new ...

Good job Floridians. You voted for a president who doesn’t care about Florida’s shorelines or economic well-being. When you ...