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      Biden, Do the Right Thing and Halt New LNG Export Facilities

      What Colombia is to cocaine, the U.S. is to hydrocarbons—a supplier/pusher of molecules so dangerous that the two poles are now melting fast.

      Bill Mckibben
      Nov 02, 2023

      I’m going to tell a story about the week that should have been the worst ever for the oil industry, and actually may have turned out to be the best ever.

      It’s December, 2015, and the world is focused on Paris, where climate negotiators from every nation on Earth are on the verge of successfully hammering out a real agreement for the first time. And the language, at least, of that agreement is strong. The world’s nations declared that they were committed to:

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      Green Groups Warn Record US Fracked Gas Exports 'Bad News for Our Climate and Public Health'

      "It is time for the White House to put the public interest and our climate future ahead of fossil fuel industry profits," said one campaigner.

      Brett Wilkins
      Oct 04, 2023

      As the U.S. Department of Energy announced that the nation set a new record for fossil gas exports during the first half of 2023, green advocacy groups on Wednesday implored the Biden administration to "put the public interest and our climate future ahead of fossil fuel industry profits" by halting gas projects and exports.

      According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), "the United States exported more natural gas in the first half of 2023... than it did in the same period of any previous year," with exports averaging 20.4 billion cubic feet per day. The U.S. is the world's leading liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter.

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      ​Greenpeace activists paint, "Gas kills," on the hull of the Cape Ann.

      Greenpeace Protests 'Shock Doctrine' by Blockading New TotalEnergies LNG Terminal

      Gas companies "cynically used... the Russian invasion of Ukraine to frighten governments into massive, unneeded investment into and expansion of fossil gas imports and infrastructure," one campaigner said.

      Olivia Rosane
      Sep 18, 2023

      As part of the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels, activists from Greenpeace France attempted to block a new TotalEnergies liquefied natural gas terminal from entering the port of Le Havre Monday morning.

      Kayakers paddled between the port entrance and the tanker carrying the terminal—the Cape Ann—and wrote "Gas kills" in white paint along its side, Reuters reported.

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