Can renewable energy projects replace Louisiana’s lost oil and gas jobs?

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Renewable energy projects won’t replace all the upstream oil and gas jobs lost due to the 2014 oil price crash and the COVID-19 pandemic, says Gregory Upton, associate professor and interim executive director of LSU’s Center for Energy Studies. “Today, [Louisiana’s] upstream oil and gas workforce is about half the size it was before 2014,”

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