A colossal Louisiana legal showdown began this week in a Plaquemines Parish courtroom, as attorney John Carmouche, who has ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The Amico Cadiz oil spill in 1978, the Castillo de Bellver ... about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, the Deepwater Horizon platform had been installed to pump crude oil from the Mississippi ...

A Louisiana island that provides critical nesting habitat for pelicans and other seabirds is being restored to nearly its former size after decades of erosion and a crippling 2010 oil spill.

After months of living with uncertainty, a dozen Louisiana residents travel to America's last frontier to get a glimpse into what their futures may hold. They ooh and ah at breaching whales, a calving ...

Oil started washing ashore ... to help with the clean up. The Louisiana coastline, with its rich shrimp and oyster beds, is the most threatened by the spill. President Obama has dispatched high ...

Citgo Petroleum Corp. has agreed to a $160,000 fine in a proposed settlement with state regulators to end more than 200 alleged violations from air emissions and other issues at its Lake Charles ...

located around 65 km off the coast of Louisiana. The explosion triggered a massive spill of crude oil, which flowed into the Gulf for 87 days before it was capped. An estimated 4.9 million barrels ...

In a separate spill-response plan for the whole ... where winds and waves and currents were stronger, no oil remained. The lesson for Louisiana and the other Gulf states is clear, Tunnell thinks.

Whether through funding of research projects, the creation of new academic programs focused on energy or, more subtly, ...