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New EPA rules will affect area industries

Southwest Louisiana chemical plants are on the list of more than 200 plants in the U.S. that will ... Read more

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FERC 101: In-person, demystified, user-friendly explainer event planned

Southwest Louisiana residents who want to know more about and have more of a say in natural gas ... Read more

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Project Cypress not a done deal yet

Project Cypress — a facility designed to capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground — does ... Read more

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Community meeting on carbon capture project set for Nov. 7

Project Cypress, the organization working towards the creation of Direct Air Capture Hub in Southwest Louisiana, in collaboration ... Read more

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Environmentalists lose latest court battle against Driftwood LNG project

Environmentalists opposed to a planned liquified natural gas terminal and pipeline in Southwest Louisiana lost a court battle ... Read more

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Three parties are suing Venture Global Calcasieu Pass

Venture Global Calcasieu Pass is in the news again. The Advocate reported that three people have sued the ... Read more

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Industry partnerships with local educators reaping benefits

High school students still learn sentence diagramming, exponential expressions and important dates in America’s history. But these days, ... Read more

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SW La. chosen as spot for nation’s largest-ever investment in ‘carbon removal’

A Southwest Louisiana project has received the funding to advance the first and largest direct air carbon capture ... Read more

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Calcasieu School Board OKs tax exemption for Lotte Chemical Louisiana

The Calcasieu Parish School Board unanimously approved a new industrial tax exemption program (ITEP) without discussion at the ... Read more

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DEQ: Venture Global release ‘preventable, unauthorized’

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) sent a Compliance Order to Venture Global on June 29 addressing ... Read more