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 ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Oil well spews thousands of gallons into Louisiana marsh, clean up underway: See aftermath ...

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.

This article is brought to you by the Louisiana Commercial Fishing Coalition LLC. The BP oil spill—triggered ... confronted yet another crisis. The closure of nearshore waters turned daily ...

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 ...

On the other side, Marc Ehrhardt, president of the energy industry’s Grow Louisiana Coalition, said the verdict is devastating to the communities that rely on oil and gas businesses and their su ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

generations of oil and gas drilling has also left thousands of orphan wells in need of closure on the taxpayer's dime. In addition, other wells, like Spectrum's Well 59, are in an idled status ...

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 ...