Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...

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.

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 ...

A contentious issue that's been fought off several times over the decades, drilling off the Southwest Florida coast is not a popular idea here.

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

Oil companies offered $300 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned ...

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

Her movements support new findings that great whites are entering the Gulf more commonly than previously believed.

The sale came after President Donald Trump's administration recently announced plans to allow new drilling off Florida and ...