Governor Jeff Landry announced today a four-billion dollar low-carbon blue ammonia plant is coming to the west bank of Ascension Parish. Landry says the CF Industries facility will generate 100 new direct jobs as well as 15-hundred construction jobs. This announcement comes on the heels of a five-billion dollar steel mill that will be built by Hyundai in Ascension Parish.
The Louisiana Oil and Gas Association is speaking out after a jury rules that Chevron must pay Plaquemines Parish almost 745-million dollars. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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State Police have charged a 26-year-old woman with vehicular homicide after she was allegedly driving drunk and hit a Monroe woman on I-20 in Ouachita Parish last Friday. State Trooper Ryan Davis says Mecca King was traveling in the outer lane and gradually veered onto the shoulder and struck a pedestrian, 38-year-old Eugenia Bates.
Davis says King was found to have an odor of alcohol on her breath. Upon questioning, King admitted to consuming two alcoholic beverages.
The Pelican Institute for Public Policy released its latest Pelican Pulse Poll ahead of the upcoming 2025 legislative session. The survey of over 800 Louisiana voters shows lawmakers a clear picture of what voters are prioritizing. Pelican Institute CEO Daniel Erspamer says the poll shows voters believe government spending is out of control.
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Erspamer says 61-percent of the respondents also want the L-A Gator Scholarship Program fully funded and 55-percent want further tax reductions, after legislators reduced income taxes last year.