Early this morning, President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the development of plans to help the EU end its reliance on Russian gas in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The announcement lays out strategies to both expand the supply of US-produced gas to Europe and reduce Europe’s need for fossil fuels, though the latter is light on details about how this would be achieved or whether it includes investments in false solutions like blue hydrogen.
The Biden administration is reportedly in talks with European Union leaders about expanding the supply of US-produced gas to Europe as the EU looks to end its reliance on Russian gas.
PennFuture, Clean Air Council, and Sierra Club obtained a settlement on March 18 that halts construction of the proposed Bradford County Real Estate Partners (BCREP) liquified natural gas (LNG) plant in Wyalusing Township, Bradford County, and requires the applicant to obtain a new air quality permit should it wish to continue with this proposed project.
A crowd of 50 people descended on the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality public hearing last night, urging regulators to defend the Louisiana coast and reject plans to issue an air permit to the Commonwealth gas export facility.
Today, 120 organizations sent letters to the six biggest American banks urging them to stop lending and support for new and expanded gas export facilities, citing environmental justice and climate concerns as well as rising home heating costs for American communities being driven by the rise in exports.
Yesterday, Sierra Club filed a petition to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny Driftwood LNG’s Title V operating permit request, which would allow it to construct and operate a massive industrial facility consisting of five fracked gas liquefaction trains and associated equipment in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Driftwood LNG is one of several large polluting facilities being approved in Southwest Louisiana that would take fracked gas from pipelines, turn it into liquid and put it on large tankers for export to the global market.
Today, the Glenfarne Group's proposed Texas LNG project at the Port of Brownsville entered into a 20-year deal to buy 720 million cubic feet of fracked gas per day from the existing Enbridge's Valley Crossing Pipeline
Brownsville, TX – In a new corporate presentation, the company behind the Rio Grande LNG export facility acknowledged yet another delay to the proposed fracked gas export facility. Originally expected by late 2019, NextDecade now plans to make a final investment decision for the project in the second half of this year.
Today, the US Energy Information Administration released new findings showing that the United States is on track to have the world’s largest LNG export capacity by the end of next year.
Today, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) submitted comments to the Department of Energy (DOE) urging the department to deny fossil fuel corporation Freeport LNG’s request to increase their export volumes
Yesterday, the Virginia-based fossil fuel corporation Venture Global filed a formal application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for CP2 LNG, a fracked gas export terminal proposed for construction in Cameron, Louisiana, just south of Lake Charles. If built, CP2 LNG would be built directly next to Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG, which is already under construction.
Pembina Announces It Has “Decided Not to Move Forward With the Project” and Asks the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to Cancel Its Permit