If you have already evacuated, do not return here or elsewhere in Southeast Louisiana until the Office of Emergency Preparedness tells you it is ready to receive you.

Either pain on shore with everything that was advertised. The surge, the rain, the wind, all of our levee systems, particularly our federal levee systems and hurricane risk reduction systems performed magnificently. Having said that, the…

I will just tell you that I had a number of conversations overnight and today with parish presidents and other officials who believe that the death count attributable to the hurricane will go up because they see catastrophic damage in…

Louisiana's governor saying he expects it to rise quote considerably.

There's been a preliminary damage assessment of levees today, people getting eyes on those levees. We don't believe there was a single levee anywhere now that actually breached that failed.

the governor of this state has been very responsible about trying to ensure that masks can occur where they need to.

As bad as things have been over the last couple of weeks, they`ve just been tend to move in the wrong direction, 2907 individuals in the hospital with COVID-19. That`s the highest we`ve ever had in any given day. We`re in a bad place.

Nobody should be laboring under the misapprehension that this is just another surge. We`ve already had three of these. This is the worst one we`ve had thus far.

We are very unfortunately in a position that we had hoped that we had pray that we`ve worked very hard to avoid. But quite simply, the Delta variant is an absolute game changer, superimposed as it is in Louisiana on a state that is not…

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards acted early.

I strongly reported the police's decision to release that footage.

I am here today to urge the Congress and the Administration to do two things.

The 45Q tax credit, I think, is the lynchpin for that.

Climate change is a serious threat to Louisiana.

Our ability to address Louisiana's climate-related challenges... relies heavily on sustainable and predictable oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.

we are going to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero relative to 2005 levels.

I do think that a state should be able to make that decision.

Louisiana has tremendous potential for carbon capture.

the demand is not elastic.

the pause works against that

I will adopt by reference all of the things that Mr. Minarovic said about oil produced in the Gulf being carbon advantaged.

It is a minimum of $50 billion.

Any lag or delay in GOMESA funding calls into question the ability of Louisiana to realize the benefits of this $9 billion.

The consequences of these actions, this political agenda, go against the science and the economics of rebuilding my state.

We have a plan which will cost $50 billion over 50 years, thereabouts, to restore our coastline.