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The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows

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Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Credit: Julie Dermansky Spoonbill in a wildlife management area, next to Lake Maurepas.

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

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Coast Guard for floating LNG projects off Grande Isle, Louisiana , were moderated by third-party contractors who offer permit expediting services for industry. This new land will create a natural barrier that will help protect the New Orleans metro area from storm surge, project proponents say. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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Louisiana Communities Already Vulnerable to the Climate Crisis Worry That the Expansion of the LNG Export Industry Could Be Catastrophic

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They live in Plaquemines Parish a few hundred feet from a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal being built by Venture Global and the Gator Express pipeline, which will transport natural gas under high pressure to the facility. Many were without power for over a week.

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

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Rita was really, really bad,” he said, referring to the 2005 hurricane that decimated Cameron Parish. “I The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. I had a house right over here.