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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

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.” Heerden was hired by three Louisiana-based environmental groups — The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), Sierra Club, and Healthy Gulf — that are suing the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for exempting Venture Global LNG from needing a coastal use permit to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

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This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” He fears that his constituency, which relies heavily on the seafood industry, will be forced to move since they will no longer be able to make a living.

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Op-ed: We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast From the Climate Crisis 

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When researching my book, Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation (University of California Press, 2024), I found myself wrestling with the river’s complex nature. Louisiana hosts a seafood industry dependent on a healthy estuary and an oil and gas industry threatening that ecosystem.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

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is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.” In 2022, American consumers spent $269 billion on natural gas supplies, up sharply from $150 billion in 2019, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

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All We Can Save , the book they birthed in September, features 41 powerful voices. One example is the adoption of buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) in India’s capital city. . The company renewed a longstanding relationship with WWF centered, in part, on responsible sourcing of land commodities and seafood.