Biden Administration Reportedly Pauses Approval of 'Carbon Mega Bomb'
The Biden administration will reportedly pause a decision on the Calcasieu Pass 2, or CP2 natural gas export hub project, one of the world's largest export hubs of it's kind, in order to give more time to study the environmental and economic impacts of this project.
Hopefully the younger voters will see that Biden IS making huge environmental and clean energy decisions despite some setbacks.
From:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/24/biden-pauses-cp2-gas-export-hub
Jan. 24, 2024, Maanvi Singh and Oliver Milman, The Guardian
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Bill McKibben, the author and climate campaigner who has led opposition to CP2, praised the administration. “With this decision, President Biden – who already can claim to have done more to bolster clean energy than any of his predecessors – has also done more to check dirty energy, halting the largest fossil fuel expansion in history,” he said.
Some however cautioned that a pause would only be good news if it ultimately did not end up with approvals after the election. Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch said: “We don’t need new criteria if they only serve to arrive at the original conclusion, and increased exports are eventually approved. President Biden should permanently halt new and existing oil and gas exports, and aggressively ramp down the fossil fuel industry once and for all.”
One expert previously calculated that the CP2 project could create emissions that were 20 times greater than the controversial Willow oil project in Alaska, which was approved by the Biden administration despite a huge outcry from Democrats, Indigenous tribes and climate campaigners last year.
“This is a carbon mega bomb,” said Jeremy Symons, a former Environmental Protection Agency official, of CP2, speaking to the Guardian last October. “The scale of the project is almost unfathomable and it locks us into a fossil fuel dependency for the next 30 years. If all we do is shift from coal to gas, we are cooked.”
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The rightwing talking points already being disseminated against this move by Biden include false claims by Mitch McConnell that this will somehow harm American's energy prices, dishonestly twisting the fact that
exporting gas
raises the cost of domestic gas.
Another article from NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/climate/biden-lng-export-terminal-cp2.html
No Paywall:
https://archive.is/lBkX9