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President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Package provides up to $4.7 billion to plug some abandoned oil wells, including $560 million awarded this year to 24 states to address some of the worst polluting wells. Some estimates say the cost to close all of the abandoned wells could be several times more than the amount provided in the infrastructure law.

Today, Louisiana’s 19th Judicial District Court reversed the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s (LDEQ) decision to issue air permits that Formosa Plastics needed to build its proposed petrochemical complex in St. James Parish. The decision throws out the air permits and sends Formosa Plastics back to the drawing board.

There are thousands of orphaned wells in Louisiana that pose a threat to residents and the environment. New federal funding will help the state plug many abandoned wells, but some question if that's enough.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette plans to use the property for research on storing carbon underground in an effort to stem climate change.

The state has set aside $9 million to buy 2,000 acres of swampland that a former Louisiana House speaker co-owns

The state of Louisiana has set aside $9 million to buy 2,000 acres of swampland in St. James and Lafourche parishes that is partly owned by Charles DeWitt, a former House speaker and Public Service Commissioner.

Government data shows that offshore Gulf Coast pipeline leak rates are 10.28 times the national rate.

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When Hurricane Ida barreled into the Louisiana coast with near 150 mph winds Aug. 29, it left a trail of destruction. The storm also triggered the most Gulf of Mexico oil spills detected from space after a weather event since the federal government started using satellites to track spills and leaks a decade ago.

DeSmog Exclusive: 2020’s Hurricane Zeta Nearly Caused ‘Another Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe’ in Gulf of Mexico The near-miss raises questions of corporate management in a battered oil industry, how drillers will handle increasingly volatile hurricanes, and federal oversight of the offshore drilling industry nearly 11 years after the Gulf of Mexico was coated in oil. The Transocean Deepwater Asgard on January 10, 2018. Credit: Image courtesy of Healthy Gulf It was Thursday, October 22, 20...