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| Dear Friend, |
| Thirty-five miles off the coast of Surfside Beach, Texas, Big Oil has big plans to build a deep-water crude oil infrastructure project that would export up to 2 million barrels of crude oil per day to foreign markets on some of the world’s largest ships. If built, the Sea Port Oil Terminal, or SPOT, would become the largest crude oil export facility in the U.S. There are several similar projects in the permitting pipeline that would have damaging consequences for people’s health and the environment along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. |
| For years, community members across the Gulf — including Earthjustice advocates like you — have submitted tens of thousands of public comments to express grave concerns over SPOT because of its impacts to public health and safety, the climate, and the environment. Although Earthjustice and our partners were able to delay the project for years because of its insufficient review, just last month the Department of Transportation gave formal approval for the project. |
| The fight isn’t over. We will continue to work with partners to help prevent this project from getting off the ground. SPOT still doesn’t have all its permits, and we are also working to ensure that the three other proposed terminals don’t get off the ground either. |
| These projects would lead to increased domestic fossil fuel production and would lock in new transport and processing infrastructure for the sole purpose of growing oil and gas industry profits all at the expense of our climate, Gulf Coast ecosystems, and frontline communities that have long-served as sacrifice zones for the fossil fuel industry. |
| Join us in telling the Biden administration to reject the proposals to build other several new offshore deepwater ports throughout the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Thank you for your continued advocacy,
Michael Brown
Senior Attorney,
Fossil Fuels Program |
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