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Richard McLaughlin

Chair for coastal and marine policy and law, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

Dr. Richard McLaughlin is the Endowed Chair for Coastal and Marine Policy and Law at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He and his team study the intersection between public policy and the health and well-being of our natural resources.

Latest Columns

Energy

Mexico's Gulf oil will have big — but unknown — effects in Texas

By Richard McLaughlin, Dec. 19, 2016

With energy production crossing new borders in the Gulf of Mexico, our research collaborations must do the same if they wish to keep up.