Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned ...

Thirty oil companies, including Chevron, Shell and BP, paid the United States Department of the Interior around $279 million ...

Every member of Florida's U.S. Congressional delegation signed a letter urging president Trump not to expand oil exploration ...

Environmentalists said the fossil fuel sales would put wildlife in the Gulf at an higher risk of dying in oil spills. Spills ...

If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has its way, a huge swath of the Eastern Gulf, long considered off limits, will be opened to offshore drilling.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management offered about 80 million acres in federal waters offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi ...

Florida's Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow ...

Republicans and Democrats alike — have written President Donald Trump opposing his plans to open eastern waters of the Gulf ...

“It affects tourism, and more importantly, it’s just bad for the environment,” said GOP Rep. Vern Buchanan.

Florida lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing back on a plan by the Trump administration for new offshore oil drilling.

If the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be opened to offshore drilling. Eastern Gulf offshore rigs could be as close as 100 miles south ...