| Dear Friend,
The Biden administration must reject pending gas export applications before leaving office. Authorizing more fracked gas exports, called LNG, or leaving the decision to the incoming Trump Administration means:
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Sacrificing the lives of people living near these facilities, and the destruction of local economies in the Gulf South, often in predominantly Black and Brown communities.
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Higher domestic energy prices across the country making home heating less affordable.
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More climate devastation: The equivalent annual greenhouse gas emissions of 420 coal-fired power plants.
Clean energy like solar and wind is already more affordable than fossil fuels. Economists and climate scientists agree that the world does not need more gas. LNG exports will threaten the United States' global commitments to lower greenhouse gas emissions and protecting our communities from the worst impacts of climate change.
Take action now before it's too late: Urge DOE Secretary Granholm to deny all pending LNG export applications now.
In January, under President Biden and Secretary Granholm's leadership, the DOE temporarily paused new export approvals so that it could update the studies on if LNG exports are in the public's interest. They will publish those studies soon.
But Secretary Granholm has the authority to deny pending export applications before Trump takes office, and we can push her to deny the six projects at the top of DOE's queue. We have built a powerful public record and the DOE has all the information and analysis it needs to conclude that more LNG exports are not in the public's interest.
We're already making progress. Earlier this month, another government agency called for additional environmental review of two massive LA Gulf export projects because they had not properly considered the air quality impacts on local populations.
A failure by Secretary Granholm to make a decision at this moment is the same as authorizing more exports. While President-elect Trump has promised that approving LNG exports will happen on day one, he will not be able to automatically overturn any export application denials that Secretary Granholm makes before leaving office. The Trump administration would instead be stuck with a long process that would make it even more likely that the LNG projects never get built.
Call on Secretary Granholm to do the right thing and put the public's interest, especially those in frontline Gulf communities, before corporate profits -- and deny the six key pending LNG export applications. | 
