Terry L. Jones (Floodlight)
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Some are asking Congress to add more crop insurance and disaster assistance for smaller producers in the upcoming US Farm Bill.
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Gov. Jeff Landry has filled the ranks of state environmental posts with fossil fuel executives.
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Some activists worry that the daytime state task force hearings in Baton Rouge on the issue are missing important voices from affected Black communities.
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According to new research shared exclusively with Floodlight, in Louisiana’s majority Black communities in the area known as “Cancer Alley,” because of its high concentration of polluting industries, the majority of jobs go to white workers. Similar disparities occur in minority-dominant communities along Texas’ Gulf Coast, where the majority of workers are white.
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Generous federal tax credits are driving the onrush of carbon capture and storage projects being proposed in the U.S. But like a game of whack-a-mole, there’s a chance the planet-warming emissions could seep back up into the atmosphere after they are injected underground.
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President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Package provides up to $4.7 billion to plug some abandoned oil wells, including $560 million awarded this year to 24 states to address some of the worst polluting wells. Some estimates say the cost to close all of the abandoned wells could be several times more than the amount provided in the infrastructure law.
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Despite generally liking renewable energy, the majority of Louisiana voters oppose efforts to shift the state away from oil and gas, according to a survey released earlier this year by the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance.