Louisiana
As space launches increase, there aren’t enough spaceports adds southern Louisiana as a possible future Gulf spaceport setting if SpaceX acquires land there. The source does not treat the project as completed; it uses the reported possibility to explain why Space Launch Environmental Review and Spaceport Siting Constraint matter for wetlands, endangered birds, and other federally protected species.
Louisiana appears in The high cost of vacuuming carbon from the sky as the planned location for a larger Heirloom Carbon Technologies Direct Air Capture project. The episode says the project could initially remove up to 200,000 tons of CO2 per year, though the timeline was uncertain when Amy Scott visited Heirloom.
The state also matters politically. Aaron Burns of Carbon180 says Congress protected the planned Louisiana hub even as the Trump administration rescinded funding for other Biden-era carbon-removal projects, making Louisiana a case in Carbon Removal Political Durability.
Connections
- SpaceX, Space Launch Environmental Review, Spaceport Siting Constraint, and Center for Biological Diversity - possible Gulf spaceport and wetlands-impact branch.
- Heirloom Carbon Technologies, Direct Air Capture, and Carbon Removal - planned project context.
- Carbon180, Aaron Burns, and Congress - policy-protection context.
- Texas, Occidental Petroleum, and Carbon Removal Moral Hazard - comparison hub and fossil-fuel legitimacy concern.