Trump’s five-year plan for offshore oil could be disastrous. Just ask Louisiana.

By: Lindsay Reeves

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: January 14, 2026

Words: 573

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Let’s say you hired a landscaper to work on your backyard. But they left their trash and broken tools scattered around your property and made you clean it all up. Would you hire that same company to work on your front yard?

The Trump administration would, apparently.

The administration’s proposed five-year program calls for new oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska and, for the first time in decades, off …

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