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...Sempra Energy last month pushed ahead with a plan to build a 13.5mn tonnes a year plant in Port Arthur, in south-east Texas; a week earlier Venture Global moved forward with the second phase of its 20mn...
.../ From Stephen “Swifty” Warden, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...“The last few years have been insane, to say the least”, says Barry Keim, a climatologist and hurricane expert from Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
...Morris Enyel, a wildlife veterinarian and head of the Uganda Wildlife Authority Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, said the unit would conduct testing on wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park, in the south-west...
...A vessel docked at a jetty on Louisiana’s coast is claiming its cargo of liquefied natural gas....
...In three states — Louisiana, Kentucky and South Dakota — the trigger bans were designed to go into place automatically without any further intervention from state officials....
...I also attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Louisiana’s premiere arts conservatory....
...She has now been waiting for two years in northern Mexico for a chance to seek US asylum, and a decision by a Louisiana judge on Friday means she may be waiting months more....
...A staff member of the Louisiana governor’s office tested positive for Covid-19, the south-eastern US state’s government announced on Tuesday....
...The National Hurricane Center said the Category 4 storm made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, about 60 miles south of New Orleans, yesterday afternoon causing “catastrophic damage”....
...The National Hurricane Center said the Category 4 storm made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, about 100km south of New Orleans....
...Lawsuits in states including Utah, Louisiana, Texas and Florida succeeded in temporarily halting bans....
...Alaska, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington make up states that have reported record levels of hospitalisations so far in September....
...As secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice made the case for democracy in the Middle East by invoking the segregated world in which she grew up in the American South....
...With Arkansas and Louisiana, which rank first and fourth in the US by per capita infections, sitting to the west of Mississippi, and second-ranked Missouri to the north of Arkansas, the south-eastern region...
...Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana — states with low levels of vaccination coverage — were among the summer hotspots for the Delta variant....
...“These are the darkest days of this pandemic,” Catherine O’Neal, chief medical officer of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told reporters this week....
...At Ochsner Health, which serves south-east Louisiana, the number of Covid-related hospitalisations across its network eased below 1,000 for the first time in a fortnight, but 88 per cent of these patients...
...The level was at 66.8 per cent on Friday, according to data from US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Vaccination rates are particularly low in south-eastern states....
...“You don’t want to undermine good cops,” Steve Scalise, a senior Republican lawmaker from Louisiana, told Fox News....
...says Carolyn Kousky, executive director at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Risk Center....
...South Carolina posted a record number of new infections — more than 2,220 — as did North Carolina, which saw more than 2,400 new cases of the virus....
...Hurricane warnings are in effect from the extreme upper Texas coast to parts of Louisiana....
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