Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but Roseland, Louisiana, residents say the case won’t ...

Louisiana could cut oil and gas royalties on state lands under a 2026 lease program aimed at boosting production and ...

POINTE À LA HACHE, La. (AP) — Oil company Chevron must pay $744.6 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana's coastal wetlands, a jury ruled on Friday following a landmark trial more ...

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported on ...

An alliance between Republican officials and trial lawyers faces its biggest test at the U.S. Supreme Court as criticism from the right increases. GARDEN ISLAND BAY, Louisiana — Out on the water, the ...

WEEKS ISLAND – A month after an oil spill in coastal Iberia Parish, the little island at the edge of Vermilion Bay looks bleak. Footsteps churn up oil mixed with mud and ash. A rainbow sheen spreads ...

Mikeal Berthelot, Jr., was navigating the mouth of the Mississippi River in his shrimp boat, a stretch of water he’d traversed many times before. The water was calm. The sun beat down. His deckhand ...

Louisiana officials are not keeping track of hundreds of abandoned oil and gas structures off the state’s coast, according to a recent report from a labor organization. True Transition, which ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It’s no secret that Louisiana is a state that’s economy relies heavily on oil and natural gas. But in the past year producing batteries for electric vehicles - or EVs - has ...

At the shipyard of Metal Shark Boats in Franklin, Louisiana, workers are cutting through the skeletons of aluminum ships 100 feet long, suspended in sheds the size of airplane hangars. “They’re built ...

The Coast Guard nearly doubled its original estimate of the offshore oil spill. — -- The U.S. Coast Guard has nearly doubled its initial estimate of the amount of oil that seeped from a crack in ...