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In response to mounting public pressure, the White House announced a temporary pause on approvals of all pending gas export facilities, including the Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) project proposed for the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The Department of Energy (DOE) is reconsidering how it determines whether these LNG export projects are in the public interest.
Advocates have been raising the alarm to the federal government about how gas exports harm communities and the climate, and this move from the Biden administration shows that they are listening. This is a critical step forward to make sure DOE fully accounts for the impact of CP2 and other gas export facilities on our climate, environmental justice, and the economy.
CP2 alone could pollute up to 20 times the annual carbon emissions of the Willow drilling project in Alaska — equivalent to emissions from nearly 40 million gas-powered cars or about 47 coal-fired power plants. At this critical moment on climate, it’s clear that projects like CP2 are not in the public interest and should be denied.
Despite that, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently rubberstamped the project. Now it’s up to DOE to reject CP2’s export license and strengthen its process for reviewing these projects.
CP2’s pollution, traffic, sprawl, and visual impact would add to the harms the nine overburdened local Gulf Coast communities located near the facility already experience from nearby existing LNG terminals. These communities already bear the burden of other heavy industry and are on the frontlines of the bigger hurricanes and storms fueled by the worsening climate crisis. Approving CP2’s exports will add to environmental injustice, fuel additional climate change, and increase prices for domestic consumers.
Tell DOE it’s past time to stop greenlighting fossil fuel industry expansion and prioritize communities and pollution-free, renewable energy.