This story was originally published by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action.
In his first four weeks in office, Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry has filled the ranks of state environmental posts with fossil fuel executives.
Landry has taken aim at the state’s climate task force for possible elimination as part of a sweeping reorganization of Louisiana’s environmental bureaucracy. The goal, according to Landry’s executive order, is to “create a better prospective business climate.”
And in his first month, Landry changed the name of the Department of Natural Resources, the state agency with oversight of the fossil fuel industry, by adding the word “energy” to its title.
While the United States and other countries have vowed to move away from fossil fuels, Landry is running in the opposite direction.
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