Stephen Toups: Communication is key to leading through change
Navigating a company through periods of change can be challenging for even the most seasoned business leaders, but embracing that change is often essential...
Kennedy: AIM Act will defend Louisiana jobs, environment
Bipartisanship, like common sense, is rare in Washington, D.C. But every now and then, the stars align and both sides find common ground. At...
Analysis: CHOPS outage impact may linger in Louisiana
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Genesis' Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline System (CHOPS) outage has pushed crude away...
Industry steps up to respond to the COVID-19 threat
COVID-19 has impacted the nation and the Baton Rouge region profoundly and industrial sites in the area responded to the emergency in many ways.
Despite...
Gifford Briggs: Louisiana needs legal reform
In the past few months, like all of us, our state's businesses have been forced to confront the uncertainties of a pandemic and a...
Connie Fabre: Industry’s portrayal as villains is a distortion of reality
Industry plants in South Louisiana have been targeted and portrayed as villains for many years, probably dating back to the discovery of oil, which...
David Dismukes: Irreparable changes are coming to the American oil and gas industry
For 35 years, 1986 has served as the bellwether year against which all U.S. oil and gas industry downturns have been measured.
This is no...
Connie Fabre: Louisiana’s process manufacturing industry is synonymous with high tech
Industry employs the latest technology to improve workplace safety, reduce emissions, and improve reliability and productivity. The use of technology has improved safety through...
David Dismukes: An exceptionally uncertain time for energy markets
The last decade has completely changed the way most analysts look at energy markets. In the past, and particularly throughout the two decades prior...
David Dismukes: LNG’s changing fortunes
The shale revolution has facilitated considerable U.S. domestic natural gas production. Today there are multiple sources of prolific domestic natural gas production that keep...