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Investors offer lukewarm response to Trump’s Gulf oil lease sale

Mar 29, 2018

A record sized US government sale of oil development leases in the Gulf of Mexico has elicited a lukewarm response from investors. So far, companies have bid on just 1 percent of the largest oil lease sale in A...

Hurricane Harvey should give pause to climate change deniers

West Side Story

Aug 30, 2017

Environment, Opinion, Policy, Science

As Harvey continues to pound Houston, America’s fourth largest city, with rainfall for the sixth day in a row, the waters are still rising and emergency workers are still rescuing victims of the storm. Many hav...

Quiet Shell oil spill leaves unanswered questions

West Side Story

Jul 27, 2016

Environment, Science

A Shell oil leak, on May 12th in the Gulf of Mexico, has gone relatively unnoticed by the public. Despite the apparently moderate size of the leak, this spill demonstrates how smaller leaks can result in as muc...

FWC confirms red tide is cause of thousands of fish deaths

Platonium

Jul 27, 2014

Innovation

Thousands of offshore fish are being killed in the northeast Gulf of Mexico, and Florida wildlife officials are saying that red tide is the problem. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC...

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