Jun 8, 2011 · BATON ROUGE – Today, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Secretary Scott Angelle congratulated ExxonMobil Corporation for two major oil discoveries and a gas discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. The discoveries were announced today following the company’s first post-moratorium deepwater exploration well.

Jan 12, 2025 · President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America". “What a beautiful name, and it’s appropriate,” Trump said during a...

Sep 23, 2023 · BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Salt water from the Gulf of Mexico is creeping up the drought-stricken Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in some Louisiana communities, including New Orleans, prompting the state’s governor to warn Friday he may request federal help.

Jan 27, 2012 · BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary Scott Angelle on Friday said that the state has additional reinforcement for the belief that energy production in the federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) will continue to grow and be a driver for jobs, businesses, Louisiana’s economy ...

Mar 13, 2012 · BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary Scott Angelle today congratulated Anadarko Petroleum on its announcement that initial production has begun on the Caesar/Tonga project in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, and is expected to provide the equivalent of 45,000 barrels of oil a ...

Nov 25, 2024 · U.S. Reps Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, and Troy Carter, D-New Orleans, are asking Congress to expand state waters along the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coast further into the Gulf of Mexico.

Sep 22, 2024 · BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The tropics remain active as we progress through September as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is watching two areas for tropical development over the next week.

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The U.S. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway is the system of inland waterways, including rivers and canals, along the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It extends from Apalachee Bay, Florida west to the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, a distance of more than 1,100 miles.

Jan 7, 2025 · An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being criticized as inadequate because of its reliance on a proposed project now in...