Despite challenges for the oil and gas industry, a Donald Trump presidency is giving the industry hope of rebounding with the help of an executive branch that’s friendlier to business, an industry marketing director says. Ben Broussard, the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association’s director of marketing and membership development, spoke Wednesday during the St. Mary Chamber of Commerce business luncheon at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. Donald Trump’s election as president “has been a spark of hope among the industry as well, especially those that operate in federal waters, in federal land or have any kind of regulation by the EPA,” ...