Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

“If we are going to rename things … this is the move,” Abbott wrote on X.

In his final days, President Biden issued an executive order banning oil and gas drilling along more than 625 million acres of coastal waters. The move

President-elect Donald Trump said renaming the gulf is "appropriate," blasting Mexico for the migrants crossing the southern border.

President-elect Donald Trump claimed the U.S. will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago, his second such news conference ahead of his transition back to the Oval Office.

Biden invoked the 2010 BP oil spill, but his ban doesn’t include the area of the Gulf where the spill occurred.

Environmental groups applauded President Joe Biden’s decision on Monday to enact a sweeping ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline. But the ban had one glaring omission: It didn’t include the western Gulf of Mexico,

Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is gearing up for a significant fiscal 2026, with an anticipated $1.8 billion budget aimed at flood risk reduction, coastal

While social media users debated whether Trump was being serious about the proposal, others wondered if such a change was even possible. Whether or not it could logistically happen — which CBS News reports is possible within the U.

What's in a name? President-elect Donald Trump held a presser on Tuesday where he rambled off many statements — but one that stuck out was he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."

“THE FIRST OFFSHORE OIL WELL: First producing offshore oil well out of sight of land was completed Nov. 14, 1947 in the Gulf of Mexico forty-three miles South of Morgan City, Louisiana,” it say