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

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Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf, questioned whether regulators were really listening to the communities’ concerns at an LDEQ hearing on Commonwealth LNG’s proposed export air quality permit. She sees the greenwashing the company uses to push its project as a form of gaslighting.

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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.