The American West is running out of water—and Big Oil, of all things, can help fix it

It’s time to repurpose our oil and gas infrastructure to do something good for the planet: transport water to the parched West.

We will eventually stop burning fossil fuels. The question isn’t if oil and gas fades from the picture, but whether it can happen quickly enough to stave off environmental catastrophe. Here in Louisiana, with our enormous investment in oil pipelines and tank farms fed from oil platforms in the […]

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