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Louisiana pipeline explosion shows deep dangers of LNG buildout for our communities, in Louisiana and beyond
When a gas pipeline exploded near Holly Beach in Cameron Parish earlier this month, it left one worker injured and sent an enormous orange fireball and thick clouds of gas into the air. It also offered a blazing warning of the dangers of the fossil fuel infrastructure that pads the pockets of Big Oil executives while sacrificing Gulf communities.
Louisiana pipeline explosion shows deep dangers of LNG buildout for our communities, in Louisiana and beyond
When a gas pipeline exploded near Holly Beach in Cameron Parish earlier this month, it left one worker injured and sent an enormous orange fireball and thick clouds of gas into the air. It also offered a blazing warning of the dangers of the fossil fuel infrastructure that pads the pockets of Big Oil executives while sacrificing Gulf communities.
Dying, tired communities: Cameron Parish is a constant warning, not an exception, to the dangers of LNG
Here in Southwest Louisiana, every morning feels like a battle for clean air. The recent explosion in Cameron Parish at the gas pipeline owned by Delfin Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) is a stark reminder of the dangers that haunt our community.
Dying, tired communities: Cameron Parish is a constant warning, not an exception, to the dangers of LNG
Here in Southwest Louisiana, every morning feels like a battle for clean air. The recent explosion in Cameron Parish at the gas pipeline owned by Delfin Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is a stark reminder of the dangers that haunt our community.
LNG proliferation places Louisiana communities at a climate crossroads
The United States is at a crossroads. On one path, we continue to depend on fossil fuels, jeopardizing our climate, public health, and the survival of communities on the frontlines of environmental harm. Conversely, there is an opportunity to transition to a sustainable energy future that prioritizes people over profits, protecting vulnerable populations and ensuring a livable planet for future generations. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities are at the heart of this pivotal moment.
LNG proliferation places Louisiana communities at a climate crossroads Original
The United States is at a crossroads. On one path, we continue to depend on fossil fuels, jeopardizing our climate, public health, and the survival of communities on the frontlines of environmental harm. Conversely, there is an opportunity to transition to a sustainable energy future that prioritizes people over profits, protecting vulnerable populations and ensuring a livable planet for future generations. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities are at the heart of this pivotal moment.
Opinion | I live in Southwest Louisiana. Trump's EPA nominee frightens me.
During his eight years representing New York’s 1st Congressional District, Rep. Lee Zeldin, the president-elect’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, earned a dismal 14% on the national environmental scorecard put together by the League of Conservation Voters.
Guest column: Polluting industries — and the banks that fund them — harming minority communities Original
I did not need a report to tell me about the health impacts of polluting projects and the inherent racism behind the decisions about where to put them. Several of my children suffer from chronic respiratory, neurological and skin conditions that doctors have told me are linked to the air we breathe. It is not unusual in my predominantly Black neighborhood in southwest Louisiana for the skies to turn orange due to the release of chemicals from nearby petrochemical industries.
Why Is There Always Money For Environmental Racism, But Not Reparations?
CLOSE Louisiana’s Black communities, my community, continue to reckon with systemic and environmental racism with the biggest fossil fuel buildout in our lifetimes. Twenty-eight methane export facilities are proposed or under construction for the US Gulf Coast South – there are only seven in operation today. This rampant increase is happening all over the world, as 114 new regasification terminals are planned to start between 2024 and 2030 across the planet.
Why Is There Always Money For Environmental Racism, But Not Reparations?
Louisiana's Black communities, my community, continue to reckon with systemic and environmental racism with the biggest fossil fuel buildout in our lifetimes. Twenty-eight methane export facilities are proposed or under construction for the US Gulf Coast South - there are only seven in operation today. This rampant increase is happening all over the world, as 114 new regasification terminals are planned to start between 2024 and 2030 across the planet.
Why Is There Always Money For Environmental Racism, But Not Reparations?
Louisiana’s Black communities, my community, continue to reckon with systemic and environmental racism with the biggest fossil fuel buildout in our lifetimes. Twenty-eight methane export facilities are proposed or under construction for the US Gulf Coast South – there are only seven in operation today. This rampant increase is happening all over the world, as 114 new regasification terminals are planned to start between 2024 and 2030 across the planet.
Why Is There Always Money For Environmental Racism, But Not Reparations?
CLOSE Louisiana’s Black communities, my community, continue to reckon with systemic and environmental racism with the biggest fossil fuel buildout in our lifetimes. Twenty-eight methane export facilities are proposed or under construction for the US Gulf Coast South – there are only 7 in operation today. This rampant increase is happening all over the world, as 114 new regasification terminals are planned to start between 2024 and 2030 across the planet.
Banks can't measure climate risk? I live it every day
In April, a tornado ripped through the offices of a community organization I founded back in 2020, tearing the roof off and destroying a place which has been a sanctuary to many in the Lake Charles area of Louisiana. Low-income folks facing hardship,...
FERC Must Embrace a Fossil Fuel-Free Future
It is high time for a change at FERC, not just with the appointments of new commissioners but also with the integration of new policy that puts the health and safety of our communities over the unlimited profits of the fossil fuel industry.
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Biden did the right thing on LNG exports. Or at least, it’s a start.
Joe Biden has called climate change "the existential threat of our time." Win McNamee/Getty Images , including from CP2, an unprecedentedly massive export terminal proposed for Cameron Parish, La. As lifelong residents of the Gulf Coast, we are filled with gratitude and hope that the Biden administration has taken this monumental first step toward justice.
Is the US going to approve the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth?
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Is the US going to approve the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth?
Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters More than 200 nations pledged last week in Dubai that they would be “transitioning away from from fossil fuels”. Some cheered and some scoffed; we’ll soon know if the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas – the United States – meant what it signed, or if it was just more (literal) hot air.
Biden is gaslighting us about natural gas exports
Imagine you woke up one morning to find out that the government approved the construction of a giant “natural” gas processing facility in your backyard. Though your community already suffers from elevated levels of asthma, respiratory disease and cancer from polluting industry, no one asked you or your neighbors whether you wanted yet another source of air pollution.
PERSPECTIVES: Joe Biden’s climate policies are killing my community
Sign up for Movement Notes, a weekly newsletter connecting you directly to the activists, thinkers, artists and everyday people fighting for justice in their own communities. Enter your email to subscribe and better understand the issues that define our world. I still remember the day that we moved to Sulphur, Louisiana. It was the middle of the night and as we drove over the I-10 bridge, it looked like we were moving to New York city.
Our children are too precious for us to give up and go home
Protests should accompany chemical plants along the Gulf Coast Folks from Louisiana and Texas don’t have the luxury that executives from Wall Street have in turning away from these polluting projects. These projects are all around us, affecting our jobs and our lives. There are a lot of injustices that come with living in an area surrounded by polluting plants. Knowing that the air is constantly being poisoned and causing your children to develop health problems is a major one.
Cancer Alley: Pollution Is Making Louisianans Sick, and They’re Fighting Back
My name is Kamea and I am 10 years old. I live in Sulphur, Louisiana near the Gulf Coast with my mom and my brothers and sisters. I love my home, but I’ve also learned that pollution from oil and gas is making me and the environment sick and it is also contributing to climate change. I had everything planned for my tenth birthday party. I had picked out the decorations and a cake. I was so excited. But one week before my party, everything changed. My skin started to burn, itch, and break out.
Justice delayed in Louisiana is not justice denied
After a long, hot summer of helping people throughout the Gulf Coast who have lost their homes and livelihoods to hurricanes and calling on elected officials in Washington to stop the proliferation of fossil fuel plants, we decided energy officials needed to see what’s happening here firsthand. So we invited the commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to tour our respective towns of Port Arthur, Texas, and Sulphur, Louisiana, to see how their decisions impact our lives.
Environmental justice delayed for Gulf Coast does not have to be environmental justice denied
After a long, hot summer of helping people throughout the Gulf Coast who have lost their homes and livelihoods to hurricanes and calling on elected officials in Washington to stop the proliferation of fossil fuel plants, we decided energy officials needed to see what’s happening here firsthand. So we invited the commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to tour our respective towns of Port Arthur, Texas, and Sulphur, Louisiana, to see how their decisions impact our lives.
Who will protect communities of color from climate disaster? Original
Imagine waking up every day to the smell of sulfur dioxide, gas fumes and other foul-smelling chemicals. Even if you don’t live near gas export terminals on the Gulf Coast, you know the air must smell bad. Imagine your children are constantly breathing these chemicals and your elders have among the highest incidence of cancer in the nation. Now imagine that you also hear daily sirens warning of gas leaks and potential catastrophic explosions.
We're spending our summer in Rehoboth to get Biden's attention. Here's why | Opinion Original
Martha’s Vineyard. Cape May. Rehoboth. These coastal communities are famous for their charm and for the people who frequent them, like President Joe Biden, who visited his beach home last weekend. On the east coast, beaches and towns like Rehoboth are so well protected, it’s easy to take for granted the sense of tranquility that visitors and residents alike enjoy. On America’s forgotten Gulf Coast, it’s another story.
As peak hurricane season looms, banks bolster cozy relationship with fossil fuel industry
Over the past several decades, the oil and gas industry promised to bring economic prosperity to the Gulf Coast. Instead, it brought financial instability and increasing climate disasters, and forced local communities to pay the price. As a result of the fossil fuel industry’s pollution, people living in the Gulf Coast face a growing number of climate-driven natural disasters like hurricanes and flooding.
As peak hurricane season looms, banks bolster cozy relationship with fossil fuel industry
A thermographic image shows the part of Hurricane Ida over warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. (Nick Shay/University of Miami.) Over the past several decades, the oil and gas industry promised to bring economic prosperity to the Gulf Coast. Instead, it brought financial instability and increasing climate disasters, and forced local communities to pay the price.
Opinion: Administrator Regan, defend Gulf Coast “sacrifice zones” and stop the LNG export build-out
Roishetta Ozane and John Beard Nov. 19, 2021Updated: Nov. 19, 2021 8:28 p.m. Michael S. Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, arrives to the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs as he visits the campus of Texas Southern University Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021 in Houston.
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