The U.S. Forest Service said ‘no’ when CapturePoint asked to put carbon capture projects under national forests. The agency is now reconsidering. 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/company-wanted…

Some critics say the projects are costly ‘experiments’ that will do little to cut greenhouse gases. 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/utilities-are-…

As the federal government pours billions into hydrogen production to lower greenhouse gas emissions, critics worry water shortages in the Southwest could worsen 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/green-hydrogen…

The project in Wallace was at the center of a local fight to preserve surrounding area’s historic treasures from further industrial development 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/louisiana-advo…

The new tally shows the overwhelming number of jobs and projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act go to conservative states that back Trump 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/gop-gets-85-of…

A Bernhard Capital Partners subsidiary — new to the natural gas business — is buying gas systems in Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/louisiana-util…

In the fossil fuel-rich Permian Basin, a major producer runs a regional website that combines industry perspective with feel-good local stories. 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/oil-and-ink-mi…

The facility is being touted by state leaders as key to the clean energy transition — and job creator for residents of Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/louisiana-advo…

The new ruling bars Louisiana from considering whether to permit industrial facilities in communities already facing a disparate impact from pollution 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/louisiana-fede…

A lawyer tied to Florida’s ‘ghost candidate’ scandal is more evidence West’s biggest backers are people who want Trump to win 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/dark-money-gro…

State utility regulators have increasingly placed barriers to development of the renewable energy source in one of the sunniest states in the U.S. 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/mississippi-re…

Researchers found donations are part of a strategy by the industry to embed itself in universities to influence research and gain credibility 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/study-colleges…

A 1978 manual advised fossil fuel companies on “co-opting” academics and “giving them research grants and the like … it must not be too blatant, for the experts themselves must not recognize that they have lost their objectivity.”lailluminator.com/2024/09/05/col… via Floodlight

8/n: “Nothing close to [the] concern or scrutiny or reform [that public health scientists have applied to tobacco or pharma funding] has been applied by climate & energy experts to oil industry funding," I told Miranda Green @Floodlightnews/Louisiana Illuminator.lailluminator.com/2024/09/05/col…

In the last two months, judges rejected approvals on three Gulf Coast methane facilities, sending them back to a federal agency for further review 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/fishers-enviro…

Join our chat at #ClimateWeekNYC about journalism to depolarize the framing of plant-forward diets. Presented by Sentient. I’ll join Sentient’s Jenny Splitter, grist’s Frida Garza and climate and environmental reporter @unwrinkling Register here: bit.ly/sentient_clima…

As funding dries up for Louisiana’s coastal restoration program, advocates are strategizing to sustain it 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/funding-dries-…

This Florida ‘ghost candidates’ scandal puts the entire utility sector on trial 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/florida-ghost-…

Unlikely alliance forms to boost community air monitoring in Louisiana 🗞️ floodlightnews.org/unlikely-allia…

Huge congrats to Floodlight Editor-in-Chief Dee Hall (and Andy Hall!) on a much deserved Institute for Nonprofit News Service to Nonprofit News Award. I have been in awe of Dee since she joined us last year, and we and the news biz are lucky to have her!