A top state official is urging carbon capture executives to make greater efforts at outreach to local leaders and the public, as increasing opposition threatens to derail an industry that Louisiana has sought to embrace.

Growing opposition in rural Louisiana has included attempts to pass parish-wide moratoriums on carbon capture and demands that residents or local governments be allowed to vote on whether to allow the technology, among other grassroots initiatives.

Those are "a direct result" of a lack of communication from companies, said Dustin Davidson, the new secretary of Louisiana's energy and natural resources agency.

"I can tell you that a lot of the moratoriums we're seeing from different parishes is a direct result of not knowing who these operators are and not knowing who

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