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Energy Transfer’s Gulf Run Pipeline to Export Fracked Gas from Louisiana set to Begin Construction

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In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

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The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company. microns in diameter, very tiny.

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Spike in German Finance For Gas Export Projects Harms U.S. Gulf Coast Communities, Report Finds

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I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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After Ida, Toxic Smoke From Shell’s Norco Plant in Louisiana Creates Apocalyptic Landscape

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Refinery flares can add to air pollution in the wake of natural disasters. Some of the area’s refineries started shutting down operations leading up to Harvey, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell, and Chevron Phillips Chemical,” DeSmog reported in 2017. Home sharing a fence line with Shell’s plant in Norco. In 2018, the U.S.

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Meet Elemental’s 17 Earthshot Companies in Cohort 8

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They’re looking around corners to build a better way forward for our energy, water, mobility, and food systems. As this cohort came into focus, a few trends emerged: Unlike the energy sector, which is increasingly distributed, water infrastructure remains highly centralized. As water crises increase both in the U.S.

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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

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Robert Taylor in a trailer provided by FEMA, in front of his storm-damaged home on February 12, 2022. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. John at a protest the group held near the Fifth Ward Elementary School on October 18, 2017.

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LNG Projects Make Claims of ‘Net-Zero’ to Ease Way for Expansion

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Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. By investing in LNG now, we are going to be locking in climate pollution for 25 to 40 years.”.