LA Governor Busy Packing State Agencies W. Energy Executives, Because Global Warming Is A "Hoax"

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In his first four weeks in office, Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, has filled the ranks of state environmental posts with executives tied to the oil, gas and coal industries. Landry, who has labeled climate change “a hoax”, has also taken aim at the state’s climate taskforce 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 has hinted a new focus for the department of natural resources, the state agency with oversight of the fossil fuel industry, after changing the title to include the word “energy”. While the US and other countries have vowed to move away from fossil fuels, Landry is running in the opposite direction.

The newly elected governor wants to grow the oil and gas industry that supports hundreds of thousands of jobs in Louisiana. Environmentalists blame the industry for the pollution they say has harmed vulnerable communities in the state. A key indicator of where Landry is headed is the choice of Tyler Gray to lead the state’s department of energy and natural resources. Gray enters the new administration after spending the past two years working for Placid Refining Company as the oil company’s corporate secretary and lobbyist.

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Landry also tapped Aurelia Giacometto to lead the state’s department of environmental quality. Giacometto, former head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service under Donald Trump, sits on the board of a coal company. And Landry’s pick for the state’s new leader for the department of wildlife and fisheries, Madison Sheahan, doesn’t have a background in wildlife – or fisheries. She formerly worked as the executive director of the South Dakota Republican party and managed Trump’s re-election campaign in that state. The agency led by Sheahan is one of the state entities responsible for investigating oil spills.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/14/ouisiana-governor-jeff-landry-climate-change-fossil-fuels