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Quick update: I just got back from New Orleans, where we helped plan and execute an action on LNG exports at the America's Energy Summit (AES). The AES is like a who''s-who meeting of fossil fuel corporations and their enablers in finance and government and our actions helped it shut down early, and under-attended!

Click here for a full report back with photos and videos.

And get excited for the next LNG protest at the US Department of Energy Feb 6-8 in Washington DC. RSVP to join us for our next big action with James, Roishetta, and lots of other folks. And, if you can make it, chip in here to support the actions all this month happening in New Orleans, DC, and across turtle island (North America).

Quick recap for those who need it:

The US is making some (not enough!) progress on reducing demand for fossil fuels, and replacing polluting sources of energy with clean renewables — mostly thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act. But at the same time domestic renewables are up, so is fossil fuel extraction, refining, and especially exports.

In fact, President Biden has approved so much new fossil fuel infrastructure, that the pollution is more than offsetting the climate progress he's made – causing the US to become a global leader, in the wrong direction, on climate pollution.

That's why we asked you to send a bunch of letters and sign a bunch of petitions opposing the CP2 fossil fuel export facility in particular, but also new fossil fuel exports and infrastructure in general. Most of you have already signed one of those petitions, or sent a letter. But if not, or if that's your thing — click here to send a letter to the DOE, President Biden, and FERC all at once opposing CP2 and all fossil fuel exports.

But the main thing we want to do over the next four weeks is turn up the pressure on the Biden Administration and others to end the era of fossil fuels fast, fair, and forever. And that means taking to the streets for non-violent, direct action. Last week's events in New Orleans are just the start. We're also working with allies on a distributed day of action to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, with targets like banks and contractors all over the country. And we're helping to plan a mass direct action at the US Department of Energy in early February. You can get all the details in the blog.

See you in the streets,

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

Sources:

1. https://www.commondreams.org/news/fishers-force-early-end-to-gas-conference
2. https://www.desmog.com/2024/01/23/sunrise-movement-new-orleans-disrupt-americas-energy-summit-protest-fossil-fuel-expansion/
3. https://www.198methods.org/2023/12/14/not-too-late-and-none-too-early-to-stop-cp2-and-lng-too/
4. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-09/white-house-assembles-climate-advisers-on-lng-export-approvals
5. https://www.198methods.org/2023/12/29/2023-in-charts-graphs-and-memes/
6. https://www.198methods.org/2023/12/22/2023-wrap-up-and-holiday-card-sneak-peak/
7. https://www.198methods.org/2023/11/20/stop-cp2-and-all-new-lng-too/

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