Air Products to bring $4.5 billion clean energy complex to Ascension Parish
Air Products, an industrial gas company, is planning to build a $4.5 billion clean energy complex in Ascension Parish, according to a news release. Air Products...
American Commercial to pay $2 million to preserve New Orleans habitat after spill
Jeffersonville, Ind.-based American Commercial Barge Line LLC has agreed to acquire and preserve 649 acres of woodland wildlife habitat near New Orleans and pay...
Honoré calls on oil companies to seal abandoned wells
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré called on Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana’s Legislature to force oil companies to seal the roughly 4,600...
Turner Industries creates new spinoff to take advantage of renewables sector
Turner Industries has created a new subsidiary, Turner Industries Energy Services, that will focus on the growing renewable energy sector.
Like its parent company, the...
Firestone Polymers settles environmental claims at Sulphur rubber plant
Firestone Polymers LLC has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and several other federal and state environmental laws at the...
Sasol pushes for renewable power in Lake Charles
Sasol, the South African chemical giant that has a complex in Lake Charles, plans by 2030 to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions across its...
Feds schedule Gulf offshore oil lease sale for November
President Joe Biden’s administration says it has followed a court order to schedule an offshore oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of...
Louisiana CCUS operators to face property rights hurdles
The current administration’s focus on climate change has prompted a renewed interest in carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS). In July, the White House...
ExxonMobil presses on after other oil giants drop green algae as biofuel
Some scientists regard ExxonMobil Corp.’s long-running quest to turn algae into a transportation fuel as little more than a PR stunt. ExxonMobil says they...
LSU lands grant to research carbon conversion technology
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) announced in a press release last week that the National Science Foundation is awarding LSU a nearly $4 million...
