C&EN Uncovered: The battle for Lake Maurepas

Stereo Chemistry

Carbon capture and sequestration is the trapping of CO2 emitted by industrial processes and depositing it beneath the Earth’s surface. Spurred on by tax credits offered by recent federal legislation, companies are racing to implement the technology in geologically suitable locations such as in Louisiana.However, the community around Lake Maurepas, Louisiana, has resisted efforts by Air Products to greenlight such a project under the lake. In this episode, C&EN reporters Craig Bettenhausen and Rick Mullin discuss the fears of the community around the implementation of carbon capture and sequestration around Lake Maurepas and the response from Air Products.C&EN Uncovered, a new project from C&EN’s podcast, Stereo Chemistry, offers another look at subjects from recent cover stories. Read Mullin’s April 2nd, 2023, cover story about carbon capture and sequestration around Lake Maurepas at https://bit.ly/3W4lbCE.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/uncoveredlakemaurepas.

Credits

Executive producer: Gina Vitale

C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen

Cover story reporter: Rick Mullin

Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa

Story editor: Michael McCoy, Ariana Remmel

Copyeditor: Michele Arboit

Show logo design: William A. Ludwig

Episode artwork: Julie Dermansky

Music: “Hot Chocolate” by Aves

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UPDATE The episode description was updated on May 18, 2023, to include words that were accidentally omitted in the sentence about geologically suitable locations. The example location of Louisiana was originally missing.