Hurricane Ida Takes Aim At Gulf Coast
NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 m...
NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 m...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home
NEW ORLEANS — Federal officials plan to ban sales of raw oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico unless the shellfish are treated to destroy p...
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
Oil giant BP says it has made a "giant" new oil discovery in its fields in the Gulf of Mexico....
Robert Howarth | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
The fertilizer used on America's corn fields is the principle culprit responsible for the dead zone, a huge swath of ocean devoid of fish and shellfish.
US News and World Report | Thomas Omestad | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
Cuban officials say that exploratory drilling to assess the potential for oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to resume in the second quarter...
Steve Parker | Posted 10.31.2008 | Living
Gas shortages through a major swath of the country? Stations running dry? Welcome Back, 1974! When does the rationing start ... again? Americans are ...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 10.09.2008 | Green
NEW YORK — Crude oil prices finished modestly higher Monday, but only after seesawing wildly as nervous traders watched Hurricane Ike approach t...
NYT | Susan Saulny | Posted 09.25.2008 | Green
GOLDEN MEADOW, La. -- The men still bark orders in a French patois here while at work along the banks of Bayou Lafourche, a watery main street whose l...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — Energy companies bid hundreds of millions of dollars Wednesday to explore for oil and natural gas beneath 1.8 million acres in the ...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 09.19.2008 | Business
Oil prices tripled since 2003. Sunshine for the economies of metro areas on the Gulf of Mexico, but a cloud over the metros on the Great Lakes.
Richard Stuebi | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
I never cease to be amazed by the vehemence of opinions expressed on energy by people who are spectacularly underinformed. Let's first begin with a top ten list of clear-cut facts.
Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
If we're truly interested in creating a sustainable transportation network, then we need to envision a future where our limited supply of biofuels is used for much more efficient modes of transportation.
AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever...
Bill Chameides | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
Ever hear of a "dead zone"? I don't mean the book by Stephen King. I'm referring a typically large swath of ocean that is so depleted of oxygen that most aquatic life caught in one either suffocate or escape the region.
AP | BECKY BOHRER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green