Deepwater Horizon
Guest Commentary: New Evidence Released in Oil Spill Settlement Debacle Leaves Another Black Eye on Louisiana’s Legal Reputation
New data and information surfacing about the claims administrator for the Gulf oil spill settlement, [...]
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Pelican Institute-R Street Report Calls for Careful Oversight of RESTORE Act
Louisiana faces real vulnerabilities and cannot afford to see funds misused on projects that do not [...]
Read moreVitter Calls on White House to Account for “Scientific Misconduct” in Federal Agencies
U.S. Department of Interior officials manipulated and altered summary language attached to report to make [...]
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Guest Commentary: BP Awarded First Gulf Permit to Drill Since Deepwater Horizon Incident
The long-awaited permit gives BP the green light to begin drilling a 6,034-foot exploratory well off the [...]
Read moreExclusive Interview: What Permitorium Statistics Don’t Show
Contrary to rosy assessments from high profile publications and the Obama Administration, the owner of [...]
Read moreVitter Challenges Obama Administration on the Number of Oil Drilling Permits
Sen. David Vitter has called out top Obama Administration officials for misleading the public and members [...]
Read moreWhat Now for Energy and the Gulf?
LSU hosts industry leaders for insights on the post-spill situation BATON ROUGE – On Tuesday, amidst the [...]
Read more“Let Us Go Back to Work!”
On Wednesday 11,000 people gathered in Lafayette to send a resounding message to Washington. The Rally [...]
Read moreExclusive: Kindra Arnesen’s Perspective on the Oil Spill
Even as an acute victim of the spill, she and her husband spoke of how this area, and perhaps the entire [...]
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