Lake Charles industry to pay $5.5 million for Calcasieu contamination
Nine Lake Charles area chemical companies and oil refineries have agreed to pay the federal government $5.5 million for their contamination of the northern...
CF Industries inks contract for green hydrogen facility in Donaldsonville
CF Industries has signed an engineering and procurement contract with thyssenkrupp to supply a 20-megawatt (MW) alkaline water electrolysis plant to produce green hydrogen...
ExxonMobil proposes $100B carbon capture hub, but there’s a catch
ExxonMobil Corp. has proposed a giant, $100 billion hub to capture carbon dioxide emissions along the Texas Gulf Coast but warns that government funding...
Grön Fuels complex in Port Allen receives air permit
Fidelis Infrastructure and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber announced on April 22 another milestone in the development of the $9.2 billion Grön Fuels renewable...
Strategic Biofuels plans renewable fuels plant
Gov. John Bel Edwards and Paul Schubert, CEO of Strategic Biofuels LLC, announced last week that the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Louisiana Green Fuels, plans...
Shell focuses even more on offshore as it touts lower-carbon impact
Despite corporate mandates to reduce carbon emissions and a temporary halt for new federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, Royal Dutch Shell sees...
The Energy Evolution: How will Louisiana fare?
It's a hotly debated subject, to be sure, but most would agree that a move toward alternative forms of power, net-zero emissions and other...
Oil, gas developers on solar quest
Geologist Kirk Barrell has been on the hunt for oil and gas pockets across Louisiana for decades, but now he's searching for land to...
New Orleans City Council considers opposing Formosa plant
The New Orleans City Council is considering a resolution opposing a massive Taiwanese plastics facility in St. James Parish, reports NOLA.com.
The resolution won’t likely...
AmSty facility would recycle its own plastic products
AmSty's styrene production facility in St. James is considering a 100-ton-per-day advanced recycling plant for polystyrene, reports The Advocate.
The owners are conducting a feasibility...
