Mark Agerton News Today

CPGs bear an outsized responsibility for recycling due to their package design choices, the benefits that accrue to them alone via consumer perceptions of sustainability, and their unique connection with, messaging to, and influence over consumers.

Exploring collaboration between MRFs and CPG brands to improve product design for better recycling outcomes.

Thanks to a $3 million grant from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Professor Ipsita Gupta is working with a team of LSU researchers to find out which wells are leaking and measure their emissions before and after they are plugged.

Orphaned energy facilities are rotting away in Texas bays, leaking toxins into seafood-rich ecosystems. And guess who has to clean them up?

“It’s a constant game of catch-up,” said Jason Simmerman, Ohio's orphan well program manager. “We find new wells every week.”

Study finds that plugging shallower wells first would be more cost-effective    By LILLY ACKERMAN — science@theaggie.org    A recent paper by

There are an estimated 14,000 open holes in the ground that remain uncapped.

There are an estimated 14,000 open holes in the ground that remain uncapped.

Capping these potential sources of methane could cost $30 billion. But targeting wells in shallow waters would have the highest impact, a new study finds

Waters off Alabama, Louisiana and Texas are home to 14,000 nonproductive wells