by Adam Daigle | Acadiana business editor Good morning, Acadiana business news readers. Let's skip the small talk and get started. As he addressed a roomful of carbon capture specialists at a forum Tuesday, Gov. John Bel Edwards paused, then abandoned his prepared remarks to make a simple request of the crowd. He wanted their help, he said, in selling Louisiana’s public on the new technology. “We have a responsibility to communicate with the people who are voicing concerns and objections to let them know why we believe carbon capture and storage is safe. Why we believe in the science,” Edwards said. Edwards traveled to the nation's capital this week to speak at the 11th Annual D.C. Forum on Carbon Capture and Storage, hosted by the Global CSS Institute. He was the keynote speaker; it is one of several recent trips the governor has made to highlight the benefits of the technology, which has been controversial in Louisiana. You can read the full story here. Have a great day and thanks for reading. | 