Louisiana Parish Sued for Halting Carbon Sequestration Project

A Louisiana parish unlawfully placed a year-long moratorium on the construction and drilling of injection wells used in carbon capture, according to a lawsuit filed by a company working to build the Class V wells to store carbon dioxide emissions underground.

Air Products Blue Energy LLC said it has plans to build a $4.5 billion clean energy complex in Louisiana, which it says would produce clean hydrogen and ammonia for its customers in the US Gulf Coast. The project would permanently sequester 5 million metric tons of CO2 each year, the company claims.

But due to concerns that the carbon ...