The Fight to Protect Lake Maurepas

When a community refused to give up

On June 30, 2026, Air Products publicly announced it was canceling its proposed Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) project beneath Lake Maurepas.

Many people have asked how we got here. This is the story of how hundreds of ordinary citizens, working alongside local leaders, refused to give up.

For many of us, the threat to Lake Maurepas began on October 4, 2021, during a quiet Zoom meeting. At t…