Low prices drive oil and gas industry to slash academic research funding given to LSU Center for Energy Studies and other research centers

    Back when oil was around $100 a barrel, scientists at LSU were preparing to study the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, a large rock formation in the middle of the state that holds billions of barrels of crude…


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