All last month, we asked you to sign petitions, send comments, and take action aimed at getting the Biden Administration to stop the fossil fuel exports, especially LNG, that are wrecking our climate progress. On November 30, we delivered more than 200,000 comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) – and now we've gotten a sign that the pressure is working.

FERC released the agenda for their final Commissioner's meeting of the year, and the massive LNG export terminal Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) isn't on it. This is a delay, not a decision. But it is a good sign, as I explain more in the blog. But for right now there are two immediate ways you can help us make use of the extra time to stop CP2 and LNG too:

Click here to send a comment to both FERC and DOE asking them to block CP2 and all new LNG.
We're planning one additional delivery event targeting FERC this year with our friends at Beyond Extreme Energy, and in early 2024 we need to go bigger – with a series of non violent direct actions targeting the LNG industry, and the Biden Administration. Plans are already coming together for actions in January and February – but we need resources to support. Chip in here to fund these plans and make sure Biden actually does the right thing and says no to this massive LNG export facility, and begins to phase out US fossil fuel exports.

Tell President Biden & DOE no new fossil fuels!

Like I said, there's a more fulsome explanation in the blog, but here's the quick version for your busy inbox:

Last month we gathered hundreds of thousands of comments and petition signatures, and delivered them as US negotiators were leaving for the international climate talks in Dubai. The hope was that — combined with massive anti fossil fuel protests we were a part of in New York last September, and the massive anti-fossil fuel protests at the APEC summit a few week earlier — we'd convince President Biden and US negotiators to stop leading the world in the wrong direction and actually end the era of fossil fuels.

And it worked! Sort of. The COP talks resulted in an historic, albeit semantic, victory: For the first time in almost 30 years, the entire world agreed that to stop climate chaos they have to "transition away from fossil fuels." And the US pushed to include tougher language about phasing out fossil fuels than they had been before all our comments, actions, and protests.

That said, there hasn't been any actual phase out of fossil fuels - in the US or abroad. In fact, fossil fuel extraction, use, and especially exports are up in the US.

But that's why FERC delaying the CP2 decision is a good sign. And why we need to escalate in 2024. Comments and signatures got us a delay in the last few weeks. But the big change in policy to phase out fossil fuels, that was the result of many weeks of "street heat" organizing in the US and around the world.

So, get on board – send your comments to FERC and DOE (or send them again) and chip in what you can to charge up our fight before the end of the year. We need to launch 2024 with a wave of actions that slams the Overton window wide open and convinces Biden to finally end the era of fossil fuels fast, fair, and forever.

Thanks for taking action,

Drew and the 198 methods to stop climate change but LNG exports ain't one crew

Sources (lots more in the blog post):