Kevin McGill, Associated Press

A lawsuit filed in June by parents of Louisiana public schoolchildren with various religious backgrounds says the law violates First Amendment language forbidding government establishment of religion and guaranteeing religious liberty.

The restrictions won’t take effect, at least right away, because the Supreme Court has intervened to keep the drug available during the legal fight.

Ten workers who are suing Grand Isle Shipyard allege they were virtual prisoners at inadequate bunkhouse and that the company left some of them during the storm.

A federal judge in Louisiana ordered that plans be resumed for lease sales that were delayed for the Gulf of Mexico and in Alaska.

An oil industry vessel flipped Tuesday south of Port Fourchon, a major base for the U.S. oil and gas industry. Twelve people are missing.

The suit specifically seeks an order that the government go ahead with sales of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet.

The storm has left a trail of damage and more than 2.6 million homes and businesses without power in Atlanta and beyond.

Zeta is was the 27th named storm of a historically busy Atlantic hurricane season — with over a month left before it ends.

Environmental groups and a New Orleans energy company have reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit stemming from the company's failed efforts to stop a decade-old, slow-motion oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP and five Gulf states announced a record $18.7 billion record settlement Thursday that resolves years of legal fighting over the environmental and economic damage done by the energy giant's oil spill in 2010.

With its massive size and ponderous movement, Tropical Storm Isaac was gaining strength Monday as it headed toward the Gulf Coast. The next 24 hours would determine whether it brought the usual punishing rains and winds - or something even more destructive harkening back to the devastation wrought seven years ago by Hurricane Katrina.

BP is reiterating claims first made last April that it is entitled to payment from contractor Halliburton Energy Services for expenses and lost profits resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon offshore oil well disaster.