A major energy infrastructure company is getting closer to sending carbon dioxide deep underground in southwestern Louisiana after state regulators issued their first draft CO2 injection permit.

CAMERON, La. (KPLC) - We have the latest information ... order was previously issued for all of Cameron Parish except for Hackberry which was downgraded to a voluntary evacuation.

The LNG export business has been booming in Louisiana since at least 2010 when Cheniere Energy first applied to ship the fuel from its then-planned Sabine Pass terminal in southwest Louisiana.