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Dec 18, 2024 | 
lailluminator.com | Pam Radtke
A green light doesn’t necessarily mean go for the 18 liquefied natural gas export projects that have been in limbo pending a U.S. Department of Energy study on whether LNG exports are in the public interest. Additional permits, court fights and market forces will impact whether the proposed increase in LNG capacity in the United States will be built, according to experts.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
ktbs.com | Pam Radtke
The company Climeworks uses large fans to capture carbon dioxide at its Mammoth facility in Iceland. The fans draw air through filters that capture carbon dioxide using an absorbing material. This same process will be used at a federally supported facility being developed in Calcasieu Parish.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
ktbs.com | Pam Radtke
In rural northeast Louisiana, known for its rice, sweet potato farms and poverty, an as-yet-to-be-named company has agreed to build a new data center with an investment of at least $5 billion. The development is being called a “godsend” and a “game changer” for the region, where one in five people lives in poverty. Next to the site, off Interstate 20 in Holly Ridge, electric utility Entergy plans to build a 1,500-megawatt natural gas plant to power the data center.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Ntt Data |Pam Radtke
This story was originally published by Floodlight. In rural northeast Louisiana, known for its rice, sweet potato farms and poverty, an as-yet-to-be-named company has agreed to build a new data center with an investment of at least $5 billion. The development is being called a “godsend” and a “game changer” for the region, where one in five people lives in poverty.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
lailluminator.com | Pam Radtke
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to lift roadblocks to oil and gas production and approve construction of more than a dozen liquefied natural gas terminals in Louisiana and elsewhere. At the same time, a special session in the Louisiana Legislature that began Nov. 6 seeks to cut state taxes for oil refineries and petrochemical companies. The state’s generous property tax exemption for industry won’t be touched.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
floodlightnews.org | Pam Radtke |Pam was part
In rural northeast Louisiana, known for its rice, sweet potato farms and poverty, an as-yet-to-be-named company has agreed to build a new data center with an investment of at least $5 billion. The development is being called a “godsend” and a “game changer” for the region, where one in five people lives in poverty. Next to the site, off Interstate 20 in Holly Ridge, electric utility Entergy plans to build a 1,500-megawatt natural gas plant to power the data center.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
latitudemedia.com | Pam Radtke
The utility said it evaluated other alternatives to provide electricity to the data center, including wind or solar, but concluded it would still have to build a natural gas power plant on site as backup generation because such renewable sources do not generate electricity around the clock. But Michelle Solomon, an analyst with the nonprofit climate think tank Energy Innovation, says Entergy’s analysis is flawed.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
floodlightnews.org | Pam Radtke |Pam was part
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to lift roadblocks to oil and gas production and approve construction of more than a dozen liquefied natural gas terminals in Louisiana and elsewhere. At the same time, a special session in the Louisiana Legislature that began Nov. 6 seeks to cut state taxes for oil refineries and petrochemical companies. The state’s generous property tax exemption for industry won’t be touched.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
floodlightnews.org | Pam Radtke |Mario Ariza |Miranda Green |Pam was part
This past April, days before a Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) meeting at a remote lakefront resort, the state’s largest power company dropped a bombshell. Entergy asked the panel to vote, four months ahead of schedule, on an ambitious resilience plan that would cost nearly $2 billion.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
floodlightnews.org | Mario Ariza |Miranda Green |Pam Radtke |Pam was part
Polluting Democracy — 16 min read It was 2:30 in the morning on Nov. 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house. Zervigon and his family barely made it out of the three-unit building alive. Multiple cats didn’t. Law enforcement deemed it arson and investigated whether the fire was related to Zerivigon's campaign work.
