Louisiana oil and gas industry

President Trump signed two executive orders on Wednesday aimed at making it easier for oil and gas companies to build pipelines. In recent years, some…

The Mississippi River has been at flood stage for months. Levees and spillways keep most homes and businesses safe and dry from the flood waters, but the…

This week on the Coastal News Roundup, WWNO’s Travis Lux talks with Mark Schleifstein, environment reporter for Nola.com/The Times-Picayune, about a big…

Thousands of miles of canals have been cut throughout Louisiana’s coastal marsh -- most of them for oil and gas wells and pipelines. A lot of them have…

Landowners opposed to the construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline have lost yet another legal fight.The crude oil pipeline is currently under…

This week on the Coastal News Roundup: An update on parish lawsuits against oil and gas companies over damages to wetlands, plus, why the Gulf of Mexico…

It was eight years ago today that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up, spewing more than 160 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over several…

This week on the Coastal News Roundup: legal stuff!A local levee board's lawsuit against more than 90 oil and gas companies ends after bouncing around in…

Last week President Trump pulled the U.S out of the Paris Climate Agreement -- or Paris Climate Accord. When it was ratified in 2015 it was a big deal --…

Gas prices usually rise in the spring and peak around Memorial Day. That’s because refineries make more expensive blends for summer. Last week, though,…