Environmental

Air Products hires 25 lobbyists ahead of legislative session

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. hired 25 lobbyists ahead of the Louisiana Legislature’s regular session, reports WWNO. The Pennsylvania-based company and global leader in...

Australian firm eyes Ascension Parish for EV battery materials production plant

Australian company Element 25 is exploring plans to build an electric vehicle battery materials production facility in Ascension Parish, LED announced last week. If the project...

Louisiana energy companies wasted $82M in natural gas, analysis finds

A new environmental advocacy group analysis released last week found Louisiana’s oil and gas industry wasted over $82 million worth of natural gas in...

EPA head proposes new pollution cuts at chemical plants during Louisiana visit

EPA Administrator Michael Regan returned to Louisiana last week, announcing proposed new rules aimed at reducing pollution at more than 200 facilities nationwide as...

Ucore invests $75 million in Louisiana rare earth separation, purification facility

Ucore North America, a subsidiary of Ucore Rare Metals Inc., will invest $75 million to establish North America’s first modern technology rare earth element...

How soon could ExxonMobil’s low-carbon business overtake oil and gas revenues?

ExxonMobil’s low-carbon business has the potential to generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue and outperform the company’s traditional oil and gas side...

EPA declares Baton Rouge’s Capital Lakes cleanup a national priority

The Environmental Protection Agency announced it is adding the Capitol Lakes cleanup to its national priorities list. Adding the Superfund site to the list permanently commits the...

Louisiana challenges EPA rule cutting ozone-forming pollution across state lines

Louisiana has joined Texas in asking a federal appeals court to throw out a new Environmental Protection Agency plan implementing its own rules to cut...

Milestone Carbon evaluates Terrebonne Parish site for carbon sequestration

Milestone Carbon in Houston announced that it will review a potential site for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) in Terrebonne Parish, reports Carbon Herald....

LSU report touts potential of planned carbon capture hub in Calcasieu Parish

A planned carbon capture and sequestration hub in Calcasieu Parish could abate some $11 billion in environmental damages over its lifetime, according to a new...

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