The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies will present a State Energy Management Conference on February 22, 2001. The conference "Finding Solutions to Rising Energy Costs" will focus on how commercial facilities such as schools, state agencies, and hospitals can reduce energy consumption and lower expenses.

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a statewide Clean Cities Conference on January 24-26, 2007 in New Orleans at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel. The conference will promote the use of alternative fuels to reduce air pollution and improve air quality. It will also focus on practices that help reduce dependency on foreign oil.

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The annual Industrial Energy Technology Conference, put on by Texas A&M University’s Energy Systems Laboratory and sponsored in part by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, has wrapped up the major portion of its annual meeting.

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary Scott A. Angelle will address the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee at a Natural Gas Conference to be held Monday, January 24, 2005 at 2:20 p.m. in Washington, D.C.

On Monday, July 29th, officials of the state Department of Natural Resources' Technology Assessment Division and Energy Section will participate in the 2002 State Energy Program/Rebuild America National Conference in New Orleans.

The state of Louisiana’s oil and gas regulatory process, mineral leasing rules, and coastal management issues are the primary topics to be covered in the fourth annual, SONRIS to Sunset conference hosted by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Department of Natural Resources’ Technology Assessment Division (TAD) and Texas A&M University’s Energy Systems Laboratory will host

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Secretary Scott Angelle and South Lafourche Levee District Director Windell Curole addressed the annual conference of the Floodplain Management Association this week in Nevada. The pair also met with California’s Department of Water Resources officials in Sacramento, who helped coordinate the conference.

The Clean Cities Statewide Conference met in late January in Baton Rouge to discuss the use of alternative-fuels for public transportation vehicles in the state. Over 60 representatives including the U.S. Department of Energy/Clean Cities program officials, transportation industry officials and members of the Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport Clean Cities program met to share perspectives on the benefits of using alternative-fuels and hybrid vehicles.

The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) and the state Department of Natural Resource's (DNR) Energy office will participant in an interactive video conference detailing President Clinton initiatives on the use of solar and energy efficient products throughout the country. The video conference is entitled, Buildings for the 21st Century: The President's Million Solar Roofs Initiative and will be held on Wednesday, October 29 from 1:00-2:30 pm at LABI's Board Room, 3113 Valley Creek Drive.

The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) and the state Department of Natural Resource's (DNR) Energy office will participant in an interactive video conference detailing President Clinton initiatives on the use of solar and energy efficient products throughout the country. The video conference is entitled, Buildings for the 21st Century: The President's Million Solar Roofs Initiative and will be held on Wednesday, October 29 from 1:00-2:30 pm at LABI's Board Room, 3113 Valley Creek Drive.

The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG ) has honored Dr. Madhurendu B. Kumar with its Presidential Certificate of Merit for his leadership as General Chairman of the 1998 AIPG National Conference held in October in Baton Rouge. The award also recognized his latest publication, Issues and Answers on Petroleum in the Environment, which was presented at AIPG's 35th annual conference at the Baton Rouge Hilton.

With support and funding from DNR and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Louisiana’s Clean Cities coalitions are working to make our state a healthier, better place to live and work by promoting use of alternative fuels, advanced technology for vehicles, biofuels, and other renewable resources. The mission for a Clean City program is to adopt practices that reduce dependency on foreign oil and at the same time help the environment.

La. Department of Natural Resources’ public information officers will attend the Coastal Zone 03 Conference in Baltimore, Maryland along with the America’s WETLAND Exhibit during July 13th -17th.

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco announced in a press conference Tuesday the State of Louisiana has reached a settlement in its suit to stop the Minerals Management Service (MMS) from conducting any further oil and gas lease sales in the Western or Central Gulf of Mexico until it has prepared a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) covering the next sale in these areas.