Three energy companies announce plans to capture two-million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually from an ammonia production plant in Donaldsonville, transport it to Vermilion Parish and inject it underground at a location owned by ExxonMobil. Governor John Bel Edwards says this is a step twoards the state’s emission reduction goal of net zero by 2050….
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Third District D-A John Belton says a grand jury will convene November 10th to determine if the State Police Troopers involved in the fatal arrest of motorist Ronald Greene in 2019 should be charged criminally. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says he doubts Belton would convene a grand jury if he did not think they would indict…
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So far federal prosecutors have not brought civil rights charges against the troopers involved.

Republican Senator John Kennedy has raised a record-breaking $36 million for his re-election campaign and has more than $15 million in cash on hand.
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A top senior staff member for Governor Edwards is stepping down. Executive counsel Matthew Block has been the governor’s right hand man as he expanded the state’s Medicaid program, dealt with a huge budget deficit, hurricanes and numerous clashes with a Republican-led Legislature. Block says he wants to resume his private practice in Thibodaux.