John, I'm writing with major news:
The Biden Administration just announced they are going to pause approval of new liquified natural gas export facilities.1
This is an important victory for our climate movement in the fight for our planet because if built, one of the liquified natural gas export facilities would produce 20 times the greenhouse gas emissions of the Willow Project in Alaska.2
Frontline fighters in the Gulf made this victory happen — and together we’ve applied enough pressure and people power to send a message that the movement against liquified natural gas is here to stay.
But we can't stop the pressure on the Biden Administration now, we need to keep campaigning to stop liquified natural gas once and for all:
US oil and gas CEOs have been exporting record amounts of liquified natural gas overseas and exacerbating pollution and climate change both here and abroad, all to keep stacking up record profits. Yet earlier this week, 60 EU lawmakers told Biden that they don't need more US liquified natural gas and he shouldn't use them as an excuse to expand exportation.3
Now, for the first time, according to these reports, liquified natural gas projects will be scrutinized based on their climate, economic, and national security impacts. And the projects awaiting permits will fail these tests because these gas exports only serve the interests of big oil and gas corporations.
This victory is a DIRECT result of the pressure from our climate movement, John.
But we know the fossil fuel industry and its allies in Congress will do and say whatever they can to stop this progress and protect their billions of dollars in profit. Their top priority is profits over people.
That is why we cannot afford to lose any momentum — please make a $3.50 contribution today and help our climate movement build on this victory and stop the liquified natural gas project once and for all.
Today, on International Day of Clean Energy, we have the opportunity to show the fossil fuel industry that our worldwide grassroots movement will win this fight.
Thank you for standing with us in this fight,
In solidarity,
May Boeve
Executive Director
350.org
1 - Reuters
2 - CBS News
3 - The Hill
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