On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Legally, the name-change only impacts federal agencies.

Environmental advocates on Wednesday celebrated a decision by the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission to prohibit the discharge of fracking wastewater into the state’s waterways and ...

Google is being sued by Mexico over the tech giant's relabeling of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf ... order changing the name of the body of water on his first day in office in January.

In 2010, as 134 million gallons of oil spilled into the ocean from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, comedian Stephen Colbert suggested the United States rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of ...

Google Maps users see both "Gulf of America" and "Gulf of Mexico," similar to how the disputed body of water in the Middle East is displayed. Florida became the first state to recognize the name ...

Mexico has followed through on its threat to sue Google after the tech giant switched to the name "Gulf of America" on its digital maps, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced at a Friday news ...

In a series of meetings with Gulf state leaders, Trump plans to unveil partnerships on arms, AI, and energy. But despite being billed as a victory lap, the president’s Middle East tour comes at ...

The lawsuit makes good on Sheinbaum’s February threat that Mexico would “proceed to court” if the company didn’t change the name, which it kept as Gulf of Mexico for users in Mexico ...

Globally, the International Hydrographic Organization works to standardize and chart ... “water and earth.” Two bodies of water — the Persian Gulf in the south and the Caspian Sea to the ...

going so far as to punish The Associated Press in various ways for continuing to refer to the body of water as the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico’s legal action against Google comes as U.S. House ...