Tag: Gulf of Mexico
Richard Shelby, Doug Jones join forces, urge fairness for Gulf mineral...
Alabama U.S. Senators Richard Shelby and Doug Jones reached across the aisle and joined forces on Wednesday asking the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate...
Gulf Coast ports fear tariffs could reduce ship traffic and jobs
Ports and ground terminals in nearly every state handle goods that are now or will likely soon be covered by import tariffs. Port executives...
National fisheries administration approves Alabama snapper program
The federal government has approved a system developed by the state of Alabama to count the number of red snapper caught in the Gulf...
$315 million to fund projects in Mobile and Baldwin counties
A $315 million from the RESTORE Act and the Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council will help fund projects in southwestern areas of the state.
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Alabama couple part of human chain in Panama City Beach rescue
Alabama natives Jessica and Derek Simmons were part of an 80-person chain to rescue nine members of a family caught in a riptide off...
Alabama politicians lament 9 day Red Snapper season: It’s a ‘disgrace’
Congressman Bradley Byrne, Republican of the state's first district, which encompasses Alabama's two gulf counties, and State Auditor Jim Zeigler both spoke out Wednesday against the...
Bill would recognize 9-mile offshore limit for 3 Gulf states
Since July 2013, Mississippi has claimed its state waters extend nine miles south into the Gulf of Mexico, but the federal government refuses to...
Gulf oil leak records cannot be kept secret, U.S. judge says
A federal magistrate judge has rejected a company's bid to preserve the confidentiality of numerous emails and reports about its failed efforts to halt...
US says decade-old Gulf oil leak could last another century
For more than a decade, oil has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico where a hurricane toppled a drilling company's platform off the...
Drilling begins 3 miles from epicenter of BP oil spill
Just 3 miles from the catastrophic BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a Louisiana company is seeking to unlock the same oil and...
