LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a south Louisiana parish cannot enforce a moratorium blocking a global gas supply company from conducting seismic tests or building test wells in Lake Maurepas. Air Products sued Livingston Parish in October for adopting the moratorium.
The Advocate reports U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ruled Dec. 26 in favor of a preliminary injunction against the moratorium, allowing Air Products to continue its plans to open a $4.5 billion hydrogen manufacturing complex in Ascension Parish by 2026 that would store its carbon output a mile under the lake.