Sierra Club - Delta Chapter (Louisiana)

06/02/2026

June 2nd is National Mississippi River Day — a day to honor one of the most iconic, vital, and beloved waterways in the world. 🌊
From its headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf, the Mississippi spans 2,350 miles and touches the lives of tens of millions of people. It's a source of drinking water, a home for wildlife, a highway for commerce, and a gathering place for communities across 10 states.

Today, we celebrate the River and recommit to protecting it.
Learn more: mississippiriver.org/national-mississippi-river-day
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06/02/2026

https://lailluminator.com/2026/05/21/morris-meta/

When people ask who benefits from data centers? The answer is...those who are already rich.

While Morris used his political position to advance the massive Meta data center project and the Entergy deal to power the facility, he and his business partners were buying and selling the land around it over the past 15 months.

05/28/2026

UPDATE: Wasn't heard on Thursday, now scheduled to be voted on in the House Friday, May 29th - for final vote to pass into law.

HB 804 has flown through our Legislature like only a good pro-industry bill can. Geymann at his best (for industry, not for the people of Louisiana).
This is the stated purpose of the bill: to “limit liability for climate change damages based on greenhouse gas emissions… and to protect energy users, producers, and related industries.”
Absolutely NOTHING, you notice, on public policy protecting citizens.
This bill/law will make it almost impossible for citizens affected by climate change to take companies to court, and this would include CCS-related lawsuits. Carbon dioxide, methane and several “forever chemicals” are among those defined in the bill as “greenhouse gases,” and so: “No covered civil liability action for climate change damages from greenhouse gas emissions, as defined in R.S. 30:1603, shall be brought, filed, or maintained by any person against any person in any court or proceeding in this state, including any claim, cause of action, or judicial or administrative proceeding.”
HB 804 The "Louisiana Energy Protection Act" has one purpose; to totally indemnify the billion-dollar energy producers in Louisiana.
https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=26RS&b=HB804&sbi=y

05/28/2026

https://goodjobsfirst.org/ohio-data-center-tax-break/
Louisiana, pay attention! "Ohio’s data center tax break is not a targeted economic development incentive; it is a blank check to Big Tech. “These numbers confirm that lawmakers were working with wildly inaccurate information...”"

Ohio’s data center tax break cost taxpayers nearly $1.6 billion in 2025, almost 12 times the state forecast, prompting Gov. Mike DeWine to pause new requests.

05/24/2026

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/meta-s-10-billion-louisiana-data-center-is-getting-3-3-billion-in-tax-breaks-more-than-seven-years-of-the-state-s-entire-police-budget/ar-AA23cGsS?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6a073d902ff74abca25cb911b638ac21&cvpid=6a073dd2430c4c18b03792c1c5e12f5d&ei=100

How are we benefitting from giving all the revenue away?

States are awarding more than $5.6 billion annually to data center developers, and that’s a conservative estimate.

05/24/2026

https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx

Seven in 10 Americans oppose the construction of an AI data center in their local area, including 48% strongly opposed.

05/21/2026

05/18/2026

LOUSIANANS, PAY ATTENTION:

Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.