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Friday, April 21st, 2023
 
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Energy transition will happen ‘whether you embrace it or not,’ John Bel Edwards tells conference

by Adam Daigle | Acadiana business editor​ ​ ​

Happy Friday, Acadiana business news readers. I've got your daily dose of business news. 

Companies and states that don’t embrace the global energy transition could get left behind, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards told a room full of transportation fleet management executives at an energy conference in downtown Baton Rouge.

“We’ve been known as an energy state for 100 years. If we want to be an energy state 30 years from now, 40 years from now, then we better do the things that we’re talking about,” Edwards said at the Clean Fuels Summit, a two-day conference in downtown Baton Rouge hosted by Louisiana Clean Fuels and the Southeast Louisiana Clean Fuel Partnership. “Otherwise, investment is not going to come here.”

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In quiet Milton, this 90-year-old 'historian' wrote her own life story and treasures each chapter

Wilma Landry’s world has largely revolved around the five square miles of Milton, a census-designated place in southern Lafayette Parish, at the Vermilion Parish line. Read more

LEDA's annual job fair to be May 9

Nearly 100 of the region’s top employers will be on hand to screen job candidates at the Lafayette Economic Development Authority’s annual Job Fair at 9 a.m.-2 p.m. May 9 at the Cajundome Convention Center. Read more

Who's building where in Acadiana? Here are the building permits issued April 12-18

Commercial alterations Read more

 
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