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 ...

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 ...

"For the sake of Louisiana's communities and sensitive coastal environment, government officials should stop letting oil companies skip out on their well-plugging responsibilities," he added in a ...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week.

Former federal disaster response specialists and national environmental groups warn that DOGE job cuts may hamper the response to a major oil spill off ... out of the well is not yet known ...

The cause remains under investigation. A well-intervention team from the Unified Command, a joint operation of the Coast Guard and Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office, stanched the flow of ...

Louisiana ranks 10th among states with the most orphan oil and gas wells. An analysis by EDF found that 230,000 people in the state live within a mile of an orphan well, including 15,000 children ...

Photo caption: A photo of an orphaned oil well in St. Martin Parish taken in 2010. Photo courtesy Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources finalized a ...

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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 ...