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The cost to capture carbon? More water and electricity
Cleco wants to capture its climate emissions, raising concerns about impacts on the state’s water supplies.
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Losing ground: How one New Orleans community is sinking
While land is subsiding throughout the city, industry water use has exacerbated the problem in one predominantly Black and Vietnamese area.
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Industrial water use threatens Louisiana capital’s drinking water
Unchecked water use by companies like Exxon risks saltwater intrusion and undrinkable tap water.
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Louisiana legislator pushes bills benefiting the oil and gas industry — and her husband
Internal emails show Louisiana state senator Sharon Hewitt worked on a bill with a company that had financial ties to her spouse.
Gulf Coast
Oil workers on foreign-flagged ships are at the mercy of corporations
Loopholes in U.S. law allow oil and gas companies to evade labor and environmental regulations and avoid compensating injured workers.
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The Louisiana gas industry’s answer to lax safety enforcement? Loosen it more
Natural gas companies say they are being treated unfairly and are fighting to be absolved from reporting dangerous leaks
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Bill seeks to make Louisiana ‘fossil fuel sanctuary’ in bid against Biden’s climate plans
Republicans and Democrats are introducing bills to push against Biden’s new restrictions on oil and gas companies