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Louisiana’s first carbon capture well gets approval Residents question long-term impacts of industry BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | Staff writer Louisiana has authorized the construction of its first carbon capture and storage well, opening the way to a new industry that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrial plants, but which has drawn serious concerns from residents who question its long-term impacts. The order from the state Department of Energy and Natural Resources comes more than a year and a half after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted it authority to permit wells for the technology, which injects highpressure carbon dioxide in a near liquid state into formations deep underground. Issued based on well drilling, seismic testing, computer modeling and other data, the new Class VI permit near Hackberry would allow an arm of Sempra Infrastructure to build a well that could pump up to 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually for 20 years under Black Lake southwest of Lake Charles.
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks Friday at a news conference as Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason, left, and FBI Director Kash Patel listen in Orem, Utah.
22-year-old Utah man had become ‘more political,’ governor says BY ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, JESSE BEDAYN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
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OREM, Utah — A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist’s provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting, authorities said Friday. The arrest marked a major break in a case that shocked the country and raised fresh alarms about political violence in a deeply polarized United States. Tyler Robinson had become “more political” in the run-up to the shooting and mentioned during a dinner with family that Kirk
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would be visiting Utah, Gov. Spencer Cox said at a news conference. The Republican governor cited as evidence engravings on bullet casings found in the rifle that authorities believe was used in the attack, as Kirk well as chat app messages attributed to the suspect that a roommate shared with law enforcement. The governor credited Robinson’s family with helping turn him over to authorities. “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,” Cox said soon after the arrest was first heralded by President Donald Trump on the Fox News show “Fox & Friends.” Robinson is believed to have acted alone, and the investigation is ongoing, Cox said. He was arrested on suspicion of capital murder, weapons and obstruction offenses. He was expected to be formally charged Tuesday ahead of an initial court appearance. Robinson’s arrest late Thursday capped a frenetic day-and-a-half search that just hours earlier seemed stuck when authorities pleaded for tips and leads from the
ä See SUSPECT, page 4A
Golden Deeds Award winner named
BR native Leo Hamilton has led a life of public service BY ELLYN COUVILLION | Staff writer
Tyler Robinson
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urges Americans to find ‘off-ramp’ from political violence. PAGE 5A
Leo Hamilton, this year’s Golden Deeds Award winner, grew up in South Baton Rouge five blocks from LSU, where he would one day earn his undergraduate and law degrees. “I sat on my front steps and listened to LSU games,” Hamilton said. “We could hear the game announcer, Sid Crocker, from our front steps.” Hamilton is named after his father of the same name, who was a machinist at the Holsum Hamilton Bread factory on Choctaw Drive — “We had a lot of bread at my house,” he said. His mother, Myrtle, worked as a housekeeper before returning to school and becoming a
ä See WINNER, page 5A
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