While nearly 5,000 orphan oil and gas wells pose environmental risks throughout the state, Louisiana is suing the entity it ...

Louisiana is suing a company that was supposed to help close orphan wells. State officials say the company's leaders instead ...

An alliance between Republican officials and trial lawyers faces its biggest test at the U.S. Supreme Court as criticism from ...

An oil leak caused by an over 8-year-old-well spewed into a Louisiana marshland for a week. Responders are now beginning the cleanup.

On the first day of the 2022 shrimp season, a 14,000-gallon oil spill hit Louisiana waters. Now, 2,300 Gulf Coast shrimpers ...

An 82-year-old oil well that broke loose last month and spewed oily water into the fragile coastal marsh of Plaquemines Parish will be permanently shut and sealed off, the owner-operator said.

The National Transportation Safety Board says roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for ...