- Key senator criticizes Mnuchin’s TikTok bid, ties to Gulf money (semafor.com)
- Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico to be auctioned off by the US for oil drilling (theguardian.com)
- At least 5 tornadoes confirmed in Gulf Coast outbreak (apnews.com)
- Hurricane Ida closes in on Louisiana as ‘life-threatening’ Category 4 storm (washingtonpost.com)… set to inflict catastrophic damage along Gulf Coast (cbsnews.com)Louisiana governor says Ida will test state 'in ways that we've not been tested before' (cbsnews.com)One small Louisiana town scrambles to shut down (cbsnews.com)