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In 2011, the Obama administration approved construction of the first-ever liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminals in the U.S., helping fuel a massive fracking boom that has threatened drinking water supplies and compounded the climate emergency.
Back in those days, Common Dreams was a lonely voice calling out the Obama administration’s destructive pro-fracking, anti-climate policies. But we kept beating the drum straight through the Trump years with reporting that focused on grassroots organizers fighting back against the fossil fuel industry.
Then, last month, after Common Dreams reported on a planned sit-in at the Department of Energy to stop a massive LNG build-out, President Biden announced that all new LNG export terminal licenses would be paused immediately.
In the words of Bill McKibben, it was “the biggest check any president has ever applied to the fossil fuel industry and the strongest move against dirty energy in American history.”
But would you have known anything about this from corporate media? Surely not, and talk to any grassroots organizer, and they will tell you that media coverage is absolutely critical to the success of their campaigns.
For-profit corporate news outlets depend on advertising revenue from the big polluters and Wall Street interests that are cooking the planet. That’s why Common Dreams is so vital. As a people-powered nonprofit news source, we can cover the issues the corporate media never will.
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