Save My Louisiana

Save My Louisiana serves as the umbrella coalition for the Louisiana CO2 Alliance, a coalition of elected parish officials seeking greater local control over carbon storage infrastructure. Both organizations were founded by Roland Hollins, a longtime Allen Parish police juror, a position roughly equivalent to a county commissioner in most states. ^{2 3}

While Save My Louisiana has branded itself as a conservative, property-rights-focused grassroots organization supportive of the oil and gas industry, a March 2026 report by the Pelican Institute for Public Policy and related media reports alleged that its leaders worked in close coordination with left-of-center anti-fuel-energy organizations, including the Sierra Club and the Bold Alliance. Save My Louisiana has stated that it is a local organization that has no affiliation with national environmentalist groups. ^{4 2 5}

Background

Save My Louisiana was founded in July 2025 by landowners living near planned carbon dioxide storage wells or pipelines in Louisiana. The group was established by Roland Hollins, an Allen Parish police juror who had earlier formed the Louisiana CO2 Alliance, a coalition of officials from rural southwestern parishes, including Allen, Vernon, Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis parishes, that sought enhanced monitoring, safety protections, and local revenue from carbon sequestration projects. Board member Robert Maddox described Save My Louisiana as a grassroots organization assembled by numerous organizations and individuals concerned about carbon capture sequestration and identified public education as one of the group’s top priorities. ^{6 1 2 7}

The group formed in response to Louisiana’s rapid buildout of the carbon-capture industry, which was drawn to the state’s existing carbon dioxide pipeline network, favorable geology, and supportive regulatory environment. In early 2024, Louisiana became one of three states granted “Class VI Primacy” by the Environmental Protection Agency, transferring permitting authority over carbon dioxide injection wells from federal to state regulators. ^{5 8}

Activities

Save My Louisiana hosts public meetings across Louisiana on carbon-capture projects and related industrial development. In June 2026, the group organized a meeting at the Pineville Convention Center to discuss a $2 billion methanol facility proposed by SunGas Renewables, carbon capture projects, and data centers planned in central Louisiana, after stating that a Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality public meeting on the methanol project had received little advance public notice. ⁹

Later that month, the group hosted a meeting in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish at which a geoscientist warned that injected carbon dioxide could migrate to the surface through aging oil and gas wells and contaminate the Chicot Aquifer. ¹⁰

In November 2025, Save My Louisiana filed suit against the State of Louisiana over carbon-capture laws it claimed were unconstitutional, alleging that the statutes granted private companies the power to take residents’ private property for underground carbon dioxide storage and accusing state legislators of passing the laws without reading or understanding them. The suit, filed in Louisiana’s 19th Judicial District Court, claimed that six bills related to CO2 pipelines and storage wells signed by Republican and Democratic governors between 2008 and 2024 were unconstitutional and named Save My Louisiana directors Robert Maddox and Mike Slocum among the plaintiffs. ¹

The suit sought to block Gov. Jeff Landry (R) and Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy Secretary Justin Davidson from enforcing the laws. ¹¹

Leadership

Roland Hollins, a local activist who was an Allen Parish police juror (a position roughly equivalent to a county commissioner in other states) for roughly 30 years, founded both Save My Louisiana and the Louisiana CO2 Alliance. In 2026, Hollins, a career oil and gas industry worker, said he resigned from both organizations because his job had become at risk. Board members have included Robert Maddox and Mike Slocum. Renee Savant, who was named president of the Louisiana CO2 Alliance in January 2026, has also held a leadership role in Save My Louisiana. ^{2 5 1}

Alleged Coordination with Left-of-Center Environmental Groups

In its March 2026 report “Barriers to Louisiana Energy Dominance,” the Pelican Institute for Public Policy identified the Louisiana CO2 Alliance and Save My Louisiana as the most prominent Louisiana examples of tactical alliances between left-wing environmental organizations and notionally conservative local grassroots groups, alleging that the groups’ leaders worked in close coordination with anti-fossil fuel activists, including the Sierra Club and the Bold Alliance, while branding themselves as conservative supporters of the oil and gas industry. ²

The report cited February 2026 reporting by the media outlet DC Journal that Save My Louisiana board of directors member Robert Maddox participated in a July 2025 private Zoom call, apparently sponsored by the Sierra Club and mistakenly posted to the Internet, during which Maddox coordinated with anti-oil and gas activists on opposing energy infrastructure development, requested follow-up conversations to present his campaign plan to the broader Sierra Club leadership, and likened his strategy to “cutting off the head of the snake.” ^{2 12}

DC Journal and Louisiana political blog The Hayride also highlighted the left-leaning social media history of Renee Savant, an outspoken opponent of hydraulic fracturing whose posts criticized President Donald Trump on issues ranging from immigration to energy and condemned Trump and his supporters as “An idiot with idiots following him.” Hollins had praised Savant as “the woman behind the curtain” of the groups’ efforts. ²