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Salt Water Creeps Toward New Orleans Up Mississippi River

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drought upriver has left the Mississippi River so low and slow that salt water is creeping farther than usual along...

Report: Oil Spills from Offshore Transportation Way Down

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the...

Louisiana Judge Tosses Permits for $9.4B Plastics Complex

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge has thrown out air quality permits for a Taiwanese company’s planned $9.4 billion plastics complex between New Orleans and Baton Rouge,...

Agency OKs Nearly $190M in Bids from Offshore Oil Lease Sale

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration accepted nearly $190 million Wednesday in bids from an offshore oil and gas lease sale that was held...

US Takes Aim at Some Trump Offshore Safety Rule Rollbacks

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday that it wants to reverse some Trump administration rollbacks of offshore safety rules to...

Infrastructure Plan: $33M to Clean Up Hundreds of Oil Wells

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go toward cleanning...

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Court Hearing: Did Biden Legally Suspend Oil Lease Sales?

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans hears arguments Tuesday about whether President Joe Biden legally suspended new oil and gas...

Pipeline Spills 300,000 Gallons of Diesel Near New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A severely corroded pipeline ruptured and spilled more than 300,000 gallons (1.1 million liters) of diesel fuel just outside New...

Louisiana COVID deaths Near 15K; 3 of 6 Zoo Lions Infected

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s COVID-19 death toll edged toward 15,000 on Wednesday, and the zoo in New Orleans said half of its lions had been diagnosed with...

$475M Settlement Proposed in Longest-Running US Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans-based oil company has agreed to turn over a $432 million cleanup trust fund and pay an additional...

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