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

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Graves was recently credited for the inclusion of measures in the Fiscal Responsibility Act that passed in June that weaken protections in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 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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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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When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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

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Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process.

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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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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.

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The Carbon Capture Sector’s Community-Involvement Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Reality

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“Meaningful engagement and support of local communities is essential,” Sally Benson, deputy director for energy and chief strategist for the energy transition at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told attendees of the DC Forum on Carbon Capture and Storage held in May.

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