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Gulf environmental group’s lawsuit claims waivers for offshore oil drillers are unsafe, illegal

An environmental advocacy group on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming the government is allowing offshore oil drillers to skip critical safety tests put in place to prevent another event like the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster.  The Washington D.C.-based nonprofit legal advocacy group Democracy Forward filed a civil suit in the U.S. … Continued
September 27, 2019

Climate change is killing our coastal gulf fisheries

Marine life along the Gulf of Mexico is not doing well. Vast numbers of oyster, blue crab, shrimp, and fin fish off coastal Louisiana, Mississippi and bays of Alabama have been killed outright or driven from marshes. In Louisiana and Mississippi, the death blow was an unprecedented outflow of fresh water juiced, among other sources, … Continued
July 2, 2019

Ivey chosen as chairwoman of the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has been selected as chairwoman of the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition. Ivey was chosen by fellow coalition governors on Wednesday to serve a two-year term as chair of the group. The Coalition, formed in 2011 as a bipartisan effort to advance safe offshore energy development through responsible resource management, as … Continued
December 20, 2018

Mashburn-Myrick running hard as a Democrat in deep-red Baldwin County

Last year’s shocking upset in which former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones defeated Republican stalwart Judge Roy Moore has energized Democrat like Democrats have not been energized in over a decade in Alabama politics. Not only are they targeting purple districts and vulnerable Republicans; but they are also targeting Republicans deep in Republican territory. Nowhere has … Continued
November 6, 2018

Shelby, Jones: Gulf States should get larger share of offshore oil, gas money

Both U.S. Senators from Alabama, Richard Shelby (R) and Doug Jones (D) joined Senators Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), John Cornyn (R-Texas), John Kennedy (R-Louisiana), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Mississippi) to ask the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to ensure that coastal states receive their fair share of … Continued
October 5, 2018

Florida announces a Lionfish Summit

Tuesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced that they are calling for abstracts for the upcoming 2018 Lionfish Summit. The summit will be held in Cocoa Beach, FL on October 2 thru 4 and will feature presentations, posters, and discussions with marine resource management staff, dive professionals, researchers, and ocean conservationists about current … Continued
June 20, 2018

State is holding first ever Alabama Lionfish challenge

The state of Alabama is holding our first annual lionfish challenge. Conservation is a major part of fishing. Anglers are encouraged to catch and release. They are limits in total number of fish one can keep. There are limits as to the size of the fish you can keep, in some cases like the red … Continued
June 15, 2018

Byrne applauds largest oil and gas lease sale in US history

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Montrose, announced that he supports a decision by  U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke that the department is proposing the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the United States. The lease sale is an incredible 76,967,935 acres in federal waters … Continued
October 25, 2017

Gov. Ivey declares state of emergency for Nate, expected to hit Alabama this weekend

By Samuel Mattison Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey declared a statewide state of emergency for Tropical Storm Nate, whose projected path has it hitting Alabama by Sunday. The state of emergency order also authorizes the State Emergency Operations Center in Clanton, Alabama, to monitor the storm. Ivey said in a statement that the … Continued
October 6, 2017