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Political wedge on right grows on carbon capture Industry groups push back on opposition BY DAVID J. MITCHELL Staff writer
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The Easter Bunny greets people Sunday during the Gay Easter Parade in the French Quarter. ä Story, 5A.
SUNDAY STROLLS
A rider tosses a trinket to the crowd Sunday as the Historic French Quarter Easter Parade rolls in New Orleans.
The Strolling Nobles Walking Krewe marches in the French Quarter Easter Parade.
In a video posted online, Gov. Jeff Landry called State Treasurer John Fleming a flip-flopper; Fleming shot back that Landry was “a liar.” In a House committee hearing at the Louisiana Legislature, two representatives invoked the Ten Commandments against lying, stealing and covetousness. And in a new social media promotion, a new conservative advocacy group called MAGA Energy Project has accused community and environmental groups of being in bed with “liberal extremists like George Soros” and Michael Bloomberg. These skirmishes are all part of a political battle that is becoming one of the fiercest in Louisiana: The fight over carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS. That process pumps carbon dioxide deep underground and stores it there permanently in a bid to cut industrial emissions that contribute to climate change and create so-called “low carbon” products. State economic development officials say $75 billion in economic development — about three-fourths of the total capital investment announced under Landry’s tenure — is tied to the technology, which the energy industry says is critical for the future of Louisiana’s fossil fuel-reliant industrial base. But strong discontent has stirred in rural and suburban Louisiana among residents concerned about property rights, environmental impacts and safety.
ä See CARBON, page 4A
Trump issues fiery new threat against Iran Details of U.S. aviator’s rescue emerge
gets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries and threatened to restrict another heavily used regional waterway, CO ONFLICT the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the Arabian Peninsula. BY MATTHEW LEE, BASSEM MROUE, IN THE T Trump on social media KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and SAMY MAGDY MIIDDLE vowed to hit Iran’s power Associated Press EAST AST plants and bridges and said the country would be “livTEHRAN, Iran — President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats ing in Hell” if the Strait of Hormuz, crucial against Iran and its infrastructure if it for global trade, isn’t opened. He ended doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his with “Praise be to Allah.” Tuesday deadline, after American forces Trump has issued such deadlines before rescued a wounded aviator whose Iran- but extended them when mediators have downed plane fell behind enemy lines. claimed progress toward ending the war, A defiant Iran struck infrastructure tar- which has killed thousands, shaken global
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ä Iran rescue considered a complicated extraction. PAGE 3A markets and spiked fuel prices in just over five weeks. “It seems Trump has become a phenomenon that neither Iranians nor Americans are able to fully analyze,” Iranian Culture Minister Sayed Reza Salihi-Amiri told visiting Associated Press journalists in an interview in Tehran, adding that the U.S. president “constantly shifts between contradictory positions.”
ä See IRAN, page 4A
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BKV Carbon Ventures project manager Spencer Crouch looks at a compression station where captured CO2 is dehydrated and pressurized for storage in a nearby sequestration injection well in Bridgeport, Texas.
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