Growth of Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone Spurs Protests Over Federal Inaction
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By Anonymous  Conservation and fishing organizations protested today the lack of progress made to address the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Officials at Mexico&#39;s state-owned oil monopoly said Monday that the company has detected massive new oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that could
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Researchers predict the recurring "dead zone" off the Louisiana coast will grow this summer to its largest size in at least 22 years, 8,543 square miles.
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The U.S. Coast Guard shut five ports on Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico coast states of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi as Hurricane Ivan churned nearer.
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By GERARD SHIELDS  WASHINGTON - Though Louisiana gained billions in offshore oil and gas royalty revenue at the close of Congress, it was unable to push through funding for the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection project over the objections of a lone Oklahoma senator.  U.S.
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By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  Dec. 19--Margo Marks was surprised when she heard in August that the Coast Guard was planning to set up live firing zones, where machine-gun bullets would fly several times a year, throughout the Great Lakes.
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People in the Gulf Coast city of Pensacola, Fla., emerged to find backyards flooded and light posts bent at right angles. Still, many said it could have been worse.
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NEW ORLEANS, March 1 -- In his first visit to the Gulf Coast in six months, President Bush said Thursday that he heard "loud and clear" the growing complaints in the region that the federal response to Hurricane Katrina has become ensnared in red tape.
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By Patricia Smith, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 5--MOREHEAD CITY -- Commercial fishermen in the state are taking their arguments against the handling of proposed new deepwater fishing regulations to Washington.   And U.S. Rep.
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Local leaders in South Texas are puzzled and alarmed over the implications of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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This year's lifeless expanse of water in the Gulf of Mexico may be the biggest since records began, scientists say.
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LABOR: Members march outside the Labor Department in Washington, DC, to protest the regulations that took effect Monday. BY LEIGH STROPE.
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The U.S. plans to pour $750 million in to a lawless region, but critics fear it will fall in to the wrong hands.
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Despite a tropical storm and a tropical depression spinning in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, no storms currently threaten the U.S. oil and natural gas production in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
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By Rex Springston and Peter Hardin, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 12--Bigger dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay. Weed-infested forests. Sick fish.   This is scientist Roger Mann's vision of a Virginia afflicted by global warming.   Stressed, dying trees. Forest fires.
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Dismay over Washington gridlock on immigration has inspired cities and states to pass their own measures, most of which make life harder for undocumented workers and demand that employers, law enforcement officers and even landlords act as the front line.
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A proposal for a religious theme park in a fast-growing corner of the South has ignited fierce opposition.