Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012.
[Read Article]The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, also called FERC, is involved in deciding where LNG facilities and pipelines will be located. FERC usually meets in Washington, D.C., but representatives came to…
[Read Article]Billions in tax incentives from the Industrial Tax Exemption Program have failed to produce job and income growth in Louisiana, according a new report from independent research firm Ohio River…
[Read Article]Not everyone is happy with the proposal to install an underground pipeline through the Atchafalaya Basin.
[Read Article]Environmental groups in Louisiana are gearing up to fight a proposed 162-mile oil pipeline that would cut through the Atchafalaya Basin, a project involving the same companies building the controversial…
[Read Article]Nearly 1,000 jobs and billions of dollars are set to head to Plaquemines Parish. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced plans Wednesday for a natural gas plant and terminal that will…
[Read Article]Year in which Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, was hired as a production engineer by Exxon, the oil company that would eventually become the Exxon…
[Read Article]Last month, a large cloud of flammable gas ignited at an ExxonMobil refinery near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Six workers were injured during the 14-minute-long fire, and four of them were…
[Read Article]The Thanksgiving week fire at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge Refinery was not surprising. After 15 years of watching this refinery and the Exxon chemical plant, I know that Exxon reports dozens…
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