A federal judge has sided with a company preparing to store carbon dioxide emissions under Lake Maurepas, ruling the company can move forward with plans to build test wells after a local ordinance aimed to block such action.
Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company headquartered in Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit late last year against the Livingston Parish Council for trying to slow progress on its impending multi-billion-dollar plant in Ascension Parish.
The suit came in response to the council’s 12-month moratorium on the construction and drilling of Class V injection wells — a necessary data-collecting step for companies looking to sequester CO2 underground — within the parish.
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