Biden Administration’s Dept. of Energy analysis of Liquified Natural Gas exports shows Americans are negatively impacted, especially communities of color.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Biden Administration’s Department of Energy today released a long-awaited and potentially explosive analysis of the impacts of liquified natural gas (LNG) exports. The report’s findings provide a crystal clear picture of the vast negative impacts that LNG has on the climate, economy, national security, and public health. Earlier this year, President Biden took bold, historic action to pause LNG export license approvals so DOE could properly evaluate the impacts of new LNG exports. That policy created the opportunity to disrupt fossil-fuel polluters’ “business as usual.”
DOE is now expected to open a public comment period on the draft analysis. Chesapeake Climate Action Network plans to use that public comment period to ensure the analysis is used comprehensively to justify the rejection of all pending and future LNG export projects.
Quentin Scott, Federal Director for CCAN Action Fund:
“The long-awaited Department of Energy Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export analysis proves what climate justice and frontline leaders have been saying for years. The US government can no longer pretend to build out LNG export facilities in the public interest. LNG exports pollute communities, raise consumer and business costs, and increase greenhouse gas emissions, especially impacting communities of color in the Gulf. There is no spin the fossil fuel industry can put on the hard facts. Continuing to build these facilities after this report would be willful ignorance. We call on the Biden Administration to listen to their own report and reject pending LNG export licenses.”
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Chesapeake Climate Action Network is the first grassroots organization dedicated exclusively to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in the Chesapeake Bay region. Founded in 2002, CCAN has been at the center of the fight for clean energy and wise climate policy in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC.