ENROLLED
2023 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 42
BY REPRESENTATIVE COUSSAN
A RESOLUTION
To commend the Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies (CES) for forty years
of service.
WHEREAS, CES was created by the Louisiana Legislature during the 1982 Regular
Session of the Legislature; and
WHEREAS, in September of 1982, CES began operations on the Louisiana State
University's Baton Rouge campus; and
WHEREAS, CES has for forty years fulfilled its mission of providing energy
information and analysis that responds to the needs of the legislature, public agencies, and
business and civic groups; and
WHEREAS, CES has produced more than seven hundred publications; and
WHEREAS, since 2015 CES faculty have been quoted or interviewed in the news
media more than four hundred times, including in The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, among many others; and
WHEREAS, CES has housed since its inception an Energy Information Center that
includes an energy library that is a member of the Louisiana Library Network, the Dalton
J. Woods Auditorium, and conference facility, where it has hosted more than one hundred
fifty events since 2003 related to energy research and education.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby urge and request that CES continue its important work
of providing independent energy information and analysis that responds to the needs of the
legislature, public agencies, and business and civic groups.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Louisiana State University continues to
recognize and support CES's services to the state of Louisiana as an independent research
unit that harnesses the diverse resources of the university.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
executive director of the Louisiana State University CES, the president of Louisiana State
University, and the members of the Louisiana State University board of supervisors.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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