An oily water mix began spraying from the well on April 26 and wasn't stopped until May 4 after crews were able to dig their ...

IT’S NOT GOING TO OUR CONSTRUCTION ... Mexico has thousands of oil wells that have been sucked dry by the oil industry and just left,” Anne Rolfes, director of Louisiana Bucket Brigade ...

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Secretary Tom Harris recently announced contractors have plugged 519 orphaned oil and gas well ... identifies the wells as not having a responsible operator ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First News) — The House Ways and Means Committee passed a package of bills that would reduce the amount of severance taxes an oil company pays while extracting crude ...

After a week of uncontrolled spillage, a leak pouring more than 70,000 gallons of oil into a Louisiana marsh has been contained, according to the Coast Guard. However, cleanup of the area ...

A light rain washes the contamination toward a channel that drains into the bay, where snaking oil booms aim to hold it back. The leak – significant, yet small by Louisiana standards – has ...

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 ...

(WAFB) - It’s no secret that Louisiana ... revenue as well as local jobs. “Along with that investment also comes 3,000 jobs both direct and indirect and then also over 4,000 construction ...

OIL CITY, La. - In the early 1980s, it seemed like nothing could stop the booming oil industry in Northwest Louisiana. Crude ...

While filling state revenue coffers and spurring economic activity, generations of oil and gas drilling has also left thousands of orphan wells in need of closure on the taxpayer's dime.

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 ...