According to the Advocate newspaper, Ochsner Health has fired 28 employees for refusing to get a COVID vaccine. The state’s largest health system says these workers also refused to seek an exemption. Ochsner tells the Advocate 99-percent of the system’s employees are vaccinated or have been exempted.

Louisiana is getting a shot at having clean drinking water where it may not exist….
Cut 3 (34) “…I’m Dave Brannen.”

Venture Global announces a plan to invest over ten billion dollars on a new L-N-G facility in Cameron Parish. It will be located to their adjacent Calcasieu Pass terminal. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says Venture Global is also building an L-N-G facility in Plaquemines Parish…
cut 6 (11) “….this facility”
Venture Global says it’s on a mission to produce the cleanest low-cost LNG in North America.

Monroe Representative Patricia Moore, who serves on the House Transportation Committee, is pushing for some of the federal dollars from the massive infrastructure bill to go towards widening I-20 to three lanes in the Monroe area…
cut 12 (07) “…two weeks”
Senate Transportation Chairman Patrick McMath says the expansion of I-20 is a top priority.