From Grassroots to National Activist Network

For months, Save My Louisiana has framed itself as a community driven resistance to carbon capture projects. But the paper trail tells a more complicated story.

In June 2025, a Save My Louisiana board member reached out to Jan Norris of the Iowa Easement Team, a nonprofit opposing CCS that operates alongside groups like Bold Alliance and the Sierra Club. That outreach did not stop at a friendly chat. Norris reportedly forwarded the information to Bold Alliance, which funds anti pipeline activism around the country.

By July 2025, during a Zoom meeting organized by Bold Alliance affiliates, the same board member openly discussed leading the anti carbon pipeline movement in Central Louisiana and working to reconnect with the Sierra Club for deeper collaboration. He even suggested pulling the group back together, including Sierra Club allies, to present a coordinated plan and “grab the bull by the horns” in Louisiana.

This is not accidental alignment. This is organized strategy.

Meanwhile, LA CO2 Alliance promoted a Sierra Club hosted training session on opposing CCS legislation. That is not just activism. That is political training tied directly to a national environmental organization with a long history of lobbying, litigation, and partisan engagement.

When local organizations embed themselves so deeply in national activist networks, voters have every right to ask whether they are still accountable to local communities or to outside agendas.

Louisiana energy policy should be decided by Louisianans. Not by coordinated pressure campaigns shaped by national advocacy groups with broader ideological goals.