Air Products wants to off-load its risk for a proposed carbon-capture project in Lake Maurepas, which the writers see as a signal that carbon-capture technology, “a corporate experiment,” is also too risky for the state of Louisiana.
Louisiana Dept. of Conservation and Energy issues another permit after state judge ruled the original shouldn’t have been granted.
Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch.
Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say.
New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.
While Gov. Jeff Landry was quick to denounce the speed of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-led clean-up, he's silent in holding Smitty's Supply itself accountable for the explosion, fire and recovery.
Plant held millions of gallons of motor oils, fluids and other petrochemicals.
In a lawsuit about a slaughterhouse that once stood at the Alabo site, the U.S. Supreme Court first interpreted the 14th Amendment, which later became pivotal in civil rights rulings, and led to four little 9th Ward girls desegregating the first public schools in the Deep South.
Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application.
A bill on its way to the Governor’s desk—with connections to gas industry allies—could enshrine hydrocarbons as Louisiana’s future.
