Approval of new gas export terminals will lock in greenhouse gas emissions for decades, say activists, who are pressing Biden to halt these projects.
A large liquified natural gas transport ship sits docked in the Calcasieu River on June 7 near Cameron, La. Environmentalists are gearing up for their next giant climate fight: They want to force a showdown with the Biden administration over the massive expansion of U.S. natural gas exports.
President Biden has thrown his support behind the industry to help European allies, which in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have sought more U.S. gas to break a years-long reliance on Russian energy supplies. But environmentalists fear that by investing and others this year by approving the Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, even as the White House argued it was legally obligated to sanction it in some form.one LNG export project, known as Calcasieu Pass 2 or CP2, would be 20 times larger than Willow, according to an analysis by Jeremy Symons, an environmental consultant and former climate policy adviser at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Washington and industry leaders were contemplating ways to import more gas. But that era also led to a new drilling technique, commonly referred to as fracking, that would unlock so much gas that the United States now produces far more than it consumes. Environmentalists, however, say switching from coal to gas does not go far enough to address climate change. They point to findings by the International Energy Agency that humanity cannot build any new oil, gas or coal infrastructure if it hopes to prevent dangerous global warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius . They also note that the main component of LNG is methane, a greenhouse gas that is far more initially potent than carbon dioxide and often leaks from oil and gas infrastructure.
Two federal agencies are responsible for approving permits for LNG projects. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, must decide whether to authorize the siting and construction of projects under the Natural Gas Act, while the Energy Department must determine whether it’s in the “public interest” to export gas to countries with which the United States lacks a free-trade agreement.
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