LSU and Hyundai Steel signed a master research agreement on Tuesday, which leaders described as a landmark partnership aimed at boosting innovation, workforce development and future jobs in Louisiana.
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LSU and Hyundai Steel signed a Master Research Agreement, marking the beginning of a partnership in connection with the $5.8 billion steel mill planned for Ascension Parish near Donaldsonville.
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LSU and Hyundai have entered into a decade-long research partnership related to the automaker’s $5.8 billion steel mill being built in Ascension Parish.
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Following troubling news reports that ICE officials rounded up nearly 500 people at a Hyundai plant in Ellabell, Georgia, residents from Ascension Parish today called on Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to immediately claw back the $600 million giveaway he offered the company in exchange for creating high-quality, local jobs.
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On August 22, an explosion at Smitty’s Supply, Inc. in Tangipahoa Parish forced the evacuation of residents and prompted the mayor of Roseland to call the explosion one of the worst things ever to happen in the community.
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PRESS RELEASE: Ascension Parish Residents Call For Economic Development, Not to Industrial Expansion
On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, Ascension Parish residents and local advocates held a press conference before the Baton Rouge Industrial Group quarterly meeting.
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Today, Ascension Parish families, whose families have lived in the parish for generations, decried Monday’s announcement by parish leadership to make way for two ammonia plants and Hyundai Steel which will destroy the historic local community.
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Startling new emissions data self-reported to federal authorities reveals that Ascension Parish’s CF Industries is the #1 most toxic air polluter in the United States.
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Local residents from Ascension Parish stood up last night at a public hearing to denounce a project that would destroy the historic community of Modeste.
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