In the Media

Orphaned oil and gas infrastructure, climate change, and mass unemployment are big problems that require big solutions.

Alex Wise and I discuss the inadequate number of boats known as “hopper dredges,” look at the relationship between dredging and the region’s oil and gas industry, and examine what policies could turn things around before the next major hurricane hits the Big Easy.

Sharon Zhang and I talk about confronting big problems with big solutions.  

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Planned declines could create new opportunities for these workers.

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Justin Mikulka's amazing reporting.

“Regulatory capture isn't really the problem,” Milliken Biven said. “The system was designed to work for industry so regulatory capture isn't even required.”

Steve Horn is at it again.

With major cities and states issuing stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases have swept throughout the United States, the Trump Administration opened the floodgates for more offshore drilling and issued a permit for a long contested gas export project.

A breakthrough in offshore energy production has the potential to ignite an explosive economic revival across south Louisiana, sending tens of thousands of idled oil and gas workers back into high-paying jobs.