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Ascension Parish is packed with oil and gas facilities that emit toxic pollutants. Yet a battle is playing out to add even more, fueled by new government incentives for a technology that fossil fuel companies want us to believe will neutralize the harms of their dirty energy projects: carbon capture and storage.
The trouble is, projects that capture CO2, or carbon, have historically been much less effective at reducing carbon emissions than proponents would like you to believe — and they don’t capture other harmful pollutants that threaten people’s health. On top of that, transporting and storing carbon creates a host of other environmental threats, from toxic gas release to earthquakes.
In this corner of Louisiana, the oil and gas industry is testing whether it can make false promises about carbon capture and storage to advance its polluting projects across the U.S. That’s one reason Earthjustice is fighting a proposal that would likely result in the state greenlighting many more carbon capture projects.
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