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South Texas Communities Tell FERC: Rio Grande LNG and Texas LNG are Environmental Injustices to the Rio Grande Valley

Brownsville, TX - Today, Sierra Club and South Texas community members delivered over 400 public comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding the agency’s re-do of their…

New Podcast “Breaking the Cycle” Aims to Give Narrative Control to Frontline Communities Fighting Fracked Gas Industry

Today, Sierra Club launched Breaking the Cycle, a new podcast that features interviews with frontline community leaders and environmental advocates that live along the fracking cycle in the Permian…

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Receives Major Public Push Back to Rio Grande LNG Carbon Capture and Storage Facility

Brownsville - Yesterday, members of the public across Texas submitted over 200 comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) during the scoping process for the Rio…

Rio Grande Valley Communities Tell FERC to Reject Rio Grande LNG’s Carbon Capture Facility Proposal at Public Meeting

  Photo courtesy of Dina Nuñez Port Isabel, Texas - At a public meeting yesterday, community members and organizations: Sierra Club, Carrizo Comecrudo…

Shell Abandons Driftwood LNG After Tellurian’s Failed Billion Dollar Bond Sale, Project Now On Shaky Grounds

Calcasieu Parish, LA - Today, news broke that Shell and Vitol dropped their investments in Tellurian Inc’s Driftwood LNG, one of the largest fracked gas export terminals proposed in Southwest…

ADVISORY: Sierra Club to Challenge Army Corps Over Rio Grande LNG 404 Permit in 5th Circuit Court Tomorrow

*** Sierra Club’s Dirty Fuels legal team and community leaders in the Rio Grande Valley are available to discuss how fracked gas export terminals will impact South Texas *** Tomorrow at 9am, Sierra…

Environmental Organizations Challenge Plaquemines LNG Export Facility, Citing Evidence Levees May Fail During Catastrophic Storms

Plaquemines Parish, LA - Today, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Healthy Gulf and Sierra Club filed a petition to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) to require a Coastal…

CP2 Fracked Gas Export Terminal Delayed Again After Failing to Provide FERC With Sufficient Environmental Data

Lake Charles, LA - Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced a six-month delay for CP2 and CP Express, a fracked gas export terminal and its associated pipeline project…

Sierra Club, Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe Appeal Court Decision to Deny Texans Their Constitutional Right To Beach Access

Brownsville, TX - Today, Sierra Club and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of South Texas filed an appeal of the 445th District Court’s decision to dismiss their lawsuit filed against…

Exxon Mobil Continues Legacy of Environmental Destruction With Investments in Rio Grande LNG Fracked Gas Export Terminal

Brownsville, TX -  Today, the fossil fuel company NextDecade announced its deal to supply 1 million tons of fracked gas a year for 20 years from its proposed Rio Grande LNG export…