Episode 57 of Energy Nerd Show: A Green New Deal for the Gulf States

07.02.2021
Environmental Justice
Climate Change
Dirty Energy

Check out Episode 57 of Energy Nerd Show. This week hosts Jeannie and Bruce interviewed The Alliance’s very own Executive Director, Logan Burke. Hear from Logan about a Green New Deal for the Gulf South.

Learn about this regional effort to work across state lines and mobilize communities along one of the most vulnerable parts of our country. Gulf South for a Green New Deal is working towards climate, racial, and economic justice in five states across the Gulf South: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida.

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I think the most difficult thing is that Louisiana and Texas are the root of so many emissions that are not just Louisiana and Texas' fault. We're not the consumers of all of the products that are the result of those emissions. ​For instance, one of the largest carbon emitters in the state is a fertilizer company that uses methane as a feedstock. Through their industrial processes [they] have enormous carbon and methane emissions. That sacrifice zone is exactly the problem. Those fertilizers get made here in Louisiana, they get shipped up the Mississippi to be spread in crops around the heartland, then those same chemicals go back into the Mississippi River, come back down the Mississippi River and end up forming what is called the dead zone in the summer - which is a result of all those chemicals.
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