Sierra Club Quietly Teams With ‘Conservative’ Groups to Block Louisiana Energy Projects

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President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have made increased energy production a top priority, arguing it lowers prices for consumers and creates jobs for skilled workers.

Environmental activists like the Sierra Club disagree. They oppose new oil and gas production, LNG export terminals, pipelines, and virtually any other form of fossil fuel energy infrastructure.

In the lead-up to Louisiana’s 2026 state legislative session, which kicks off next month, the Sierra Club is leading a highly coordinated legal and advocacy campaign targeting LNG terminal development, pipelines and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects, which have expanded in recent years to support the state’s growing manufacturing sector.

Over the past year, the Sierra Club has filed lawsuits in state and federal court trying to halt at least three LNG terminal development projects in Louisiana, which are projected to bring tens of billions in investment and thousands of construction jobs. They’ve had success: Last fall, a state judge issued an “unprecedented” ruling, striking down a key permit for Commonwealth LNG in Cameron Parish.

Yet newly unearthed evidence shows that the Sierra Club has now quietly expanded its Louisiana campaign, cultivating and coordinating with the leadership of newer “conservative” advocacy groups in the state, most notably Save My Louisiana (SML).

Founded last summer, the leaders of Save My Louisiana call themselves “conservative” and claim to support oil and gas development. Yet it appears these leaders are working directly with anti-fossil fuel organizers like the Sierra Club, the pipeline protest group Bold Alliance, and other extreme opponents of energy development to oppose CCS projects in the state.

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SML’s President, Allen Parish Police Juror Roland Hollins, has highlighted Savant’s importance to their campaign, calling her “the woman behind the curtain” on strategy. “Your voice helped wake up communities across Louisiana,” said Hollins. “We couldn’t have done it without you.”

State energy investment and infrastructure groups have said they’re unsurprised by the team-up between the Sierra Club and the leaders of Save My Louisiana.

As Desiree Lemoine, Executive Director of the Baton Rouge-based trade group Industry Makes, told InsideSources: “These national groups are pumping millions into Louisiana to stop energy infrastructure and development here, following their typical playbook of lawsuits and misleading messages, putting at risk hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs as well as Louisiana’s pursuit of energy dominance and security.”

In December, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, a strong supporter of energy and industrial development in the state, told E&E News he believes the leaders of Save My Louisiana have been “hookwinked by the radical left.”

“The men behind that political organization have built their entire careers on the back of the oil and gas industry,” Landry said. “They claim to be pro-industry, but they are preventing our state from leading America’s energy dominance – and threatening the Louisiana economy and way of life. Sadly, they have been manipulated into becoming the mouthpiece of the well-known anti-oil and gas financiers Mike Bloomberg and George Soros.”

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