Sierra Club - Delta Chapter (Louisiana)

https://www.nola.com/news/hyundai-louisiana-steel-tax-incentives-nda/article_18cc9a50-e2a0-4461-a20e-86814db6a487.html

Jesus....

How secret negotiations led to a $2.6 billion incentive deal for Hyundai’s Louisiana plant The deal illustrates how Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration is aggressively using non-disclosure agreements to negotiate with companies in secret.

We're allowing the same sort of mass destruction of Gulf menhaden off the coast of Louisiana. We're killing ourselves by killing the food web. All for greed.
Supertrawlers Are Taking Antarctic Krill That Whales Depend On - Yale E360 https://share.google/aYJjNsEZyFQbqnW1d

June 2nd is National Mississippi River Day — a day to honor one of the most iconic, vital, and beloved waterways in the world. 🌊
From its headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf, the Mississippi spans 2,350 miles and touches the lives of tens of millions of people. It's a source of drinking water, a home for wildlife, a highway for commerce, and a gathering place for communities across 10 states.

Today, we celebrate the River and recommit to protecting it.
Learn more: mississippiriver.org/national-mississippi-river-day
@1.mississippi

https://lailluminator.com/2026/05/21/morris-meta/

When people ask who benefits from data centers? The answer is...those who are already rich.

How Sen. Jay Morris mixed Meta's mega-deal with his own real estate business • Louisiana Illuminator While Morris used his political position to advance the massive Meta data center project and the Entergy deal to power the facility, he and his business partners were buying and selling the land around it over the past 15 months.

UPDATE: Wasn't heard on Thursday, now scheduled to be voted on in the House Friday, May 29th - for final vote to pass into law.

HB 804 has flown through our Legislature like only a good pro-industry bill can. Geymann at his best (for industry, not for the people of Louisiana).
This is the stated purpose of the bill: to “limit liability for climate change damages based on greenhouse gas emissions… and to protect energy users, producers, and related industries.”
Absolutely NOTHING, you notice, on public policy protecting citizens.
This bill/law will make it almost impossible for citizens affected by climate change to take companies to court, and this would include CCS-related lawsuits. Carbon dioxide, methane and several “forever chemicals” are among those defined in the bill as “greenhouse gases,” and so: “No covered civil liability action for climate change damages from greenhouse gas emissions, as defined in R.S. 30:1603, shall be brought, filed, or maintained by any person against any person in any court or proceeding in this state, including any claim, cause of action, or judicial or administrative proceeding.”
HB 804 The "Louisiana Energy Protection Act" has one purpose; to totally indemnify the billion-dollar energy producers in Louisiana.
https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=26RS&b=HB804&sbi=y

https://goodjobsfirst.org/ohio-data-center-tax-break/
Louisiana, pay attention! "Ohio’s data center tax break is not a targeted economic development incentive; it is a blank check to Big Tech. “These numbers confirm that lawmakers were working with wildly inaccurate information...”"

Ohio Data Center Tax Break Costs Nearly $1.6 Billion Ohio’s data center tax break cost taxpayers nearly $1.6 billion in 2025, almost 12 times the state forecast, prompting Gov. Mike DeWine to pause new requests.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/meta-s-10-billion-louisiana-data-center-is-getting-3-3-billion-in-tax-breaks-more-than-seven-years-of-the-state-s-entire-police-budget/ar-AA23cGsS?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6a073d902ff74abca25cb911b638ac21&cvpid=6a073dd2430c4c18b03792c1c5e12f5d&ei=100

How are we benefitting from giving all the revenue away?

Meta’s $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks—more than seven years of the state’s entire police budget States are awarding more than $5.6 billion annually to data center developers, and that’s a conservative estimate.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx

Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area Seven in 10 Americans oppose the construction of an AI data center in their local area, including 48% strongly opposed.