The White House is allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to build a huge carbon capture facility in Calcasieu Parish. Michelle Southern has the story…
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The Pardon Board’s scheduling to review applications from death row inmates has angered those who prosecuted the cases and family members of the victims. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The Biden Administration announces the federal government will spend one point two billion dollars to build underground carbon capture hubs in Texas and Louisiana. The carbon capture facility in Louisiana will be in Calcasieu Parish. Governor John Bel Edwards is thrilled the White House selected Louisiana…
The White House says the project is estimated to create 23-hundred jobs, with a goal to hire workers formerly employed by the oil and gas industry for ten percent of the overall workforce.
Former New Orleans Mayor and Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu, who is now a Senior Advisor to the President, says the funding will come from the 2021 Infrastructure Act…
U-S Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the hub in Calcasieu Parish called Project Cypress will capture more than one million metric tons of existing CO2 from the atmosphere each year…
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News of the Pardon Board scheduling clemency hearings for death row inmates is not setting well with family members of the victims and those who prosecuted them in court. East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore says he and other DAs were completely blindsided by a campaign to reduce 56 death row sentences to life in prison was in the works.
The board originally rejected to review the cases on the grounds they were not filed according to their rules within a year of the denial of the inmate’s final appeal. Moore says several legal opinions agreed with the board to reject the cases, but a letter from the governor asking them to do so led to the scheduling of 20 cases.
Moore says throughout Governor Edwards’ career he’d never said he was opposed to the death penalty and particularly during his re-election campaign.
Weeks after the governor said he was against capital punishment, clemency applications from every death row inmate but one in Louisiana were filed.
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State Wildlife will receive approximately $58 million in federal disaster assistance for resiliency projects stemming from the historic 2019 Mississippi and Atchafalaya flood. Jason Froeba in the Office of Fisheries with LDWF says approval of the funding is extremely important for the state and Louisiana’s commercial fishing industry.
Froeba says the largest portion of the funding is dedicated to an equipment reimbursement program for the commercial industry. He says docks, processors, commercial fishermen, vessel owners, and charter captains, will be eligible for funding reimbursement.
in 2019 freshwater that was released into the gulf, due to rising waters on the Mississippi via the Bonnet Carre Spillway pushed seafood out farther and damaged oyster bays. Froeba says the estimated damage was more than $ 100 million.
In addition to the reimbursement program, Froeba says they have funding for public oyster sea grounds that are open to the public for fishing and monies for commercial and charter access grants.
LDWF plans to hold informational public meetings next month about the projects.
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