Dear NRDC Activist,

56 days.

That is how long we have until the second Trump administration takes office. We have a finite window to take climate action before the new administration’s pro-oil and gas agenda is set in motion.

I’m writing because there’s an action you can take right now to combat dirty energy.

Urge the Biden administration to reject projects that export dangerous liquefied natural gas (LNG) — a critical step toward phasing out LNG and other dirty fossil fuels that are driving the climate crisis and threatening our health.

LNG is a dangerous, climate-destroying energy source on so many levels. The energy required to chill, ship, and regasify LNG is very carbon-intensive and increases the potential for leakage of dangerous methane, a greenhouse gas that is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

At the beginning of the year, the Biden administration hit pause on climate-busting LNG exports while they updated the criteria they use to analyze whether such projects are in the public interest. Up until now, these approvals were based on studies crafted by the Trump administration and remarkably, even the Reagan administration.

Ask the Biden administration to finish what it started and protect us from LNG and other dirty fuels — and tell them to deny projects that export dangerous LNG.

Most LNG facilities are being built to process and ship gas abroad — at the cost of the health, safety, and well-being of communities from New Jersey to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas.

As with other fossil fuel infrastructure, these facilities are disproportionately and deliberately sited in low-income neighborhoods and in communities of color.

The U.S. is the world’s largest exporter of LNG — so the nation has a critical role to play in phasing it out on a global scale.

Regardless of the incoming Trump administration’s stance on LNG, the Biden administration’s act of denying LNG exports would deliver official, up-to-date climate science on LNG to the public record and underscore the urgency of phasing out this dangerous fuel, adding a hurdle if the next administration wants to resume LNG exports.

The Biden administration has been the strongest environmental presidency in U.S. history, enacting the most significant climate investment ever and moving beyond fossil fuels to cleaner ways to power our future. It’s up to us to urge the administration to make every day count and take climate action.

Help protect our communities and planet from the dangers of LNG — send a message to the Biden administration to halt exports of LNG now.

Sincerely,

Gillian Giannetti
Senior Attorney, Sustainable FERC Project, Climate & Energy, NRDC