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

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.