Tell the Biden Administration: Stop LNG Expansion Before Trump Takes Office!

President Biden

Frontline community leaders hold up a banner that reads, "Resist the fossil fuel death cycle. No sacrifice zones."

The Biden administration has just released its long-awaited analysis of the impacts of liquified natural gas (LNG) exports, which shows that LNG exports threaten communities' health and safety, raise prices for working families, and accelerate the climate crisis.

This analysis provides the Biden administration with overwhelming legal, economic, and environmental justification to stop the unchecked expansion of LNG exports. Now, with the 60-day comment period open, we need to send a resounding message to the Department of Energy (DOE): LNG exports are a disaster for our climate and communities. President Biden must reject all pending LNG export permits and protect our future.

Here’s why we need you to speak up against LNG exports:

  • Every new LNG export project pushes us closer to climate catastrophe. LNG Projects like Calcasieu Pass 2 in Louisiana could emit 190 million tons of climate pollution a year—equivalent to the pollution from 51 coal-fired power plants. There are half a dozen pending LNG export terminals like CP2 that Biden could stop right now.

  • The US already has more LNG capacity than is aligned with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and averting the worst impacts of the climate crisis. If we are to meet our climate goals, none of the LNG capacity under construction can come online.

  • The oil and gas industry builds LNG facilities in Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities already heavily burdened by pollution that it sees as “sacrifice zones." These mega-polluting projects will only harm frontline communities further, increasing their risk of cancer, asthma, and other health problems.

We need as many people as possible to weigh in and create pressure for the Biden administration to stop LNG expansion before Trump takes office.

Submit your comment today!


To: President Biden
From: [Your Name]

To: Secretary Granholm; Department of Energy

Thank you for releasing the new Department of Energy (DOE) studies on liquified natural gas (LNG) exports detailing impacts on nearby communities' health and safety, prices for working families across the country, and accelerating the climate crisis. I stand with frontline communities calling for the Biden administration to reject all six pending LNG export projects and to revoke authorizations for facilities approved under the outdated and inadequate standards that failed to account for their full climate, economic, and health impacts.

Under the Natural Gas Act, DOE must deny authorizations for non-FTA LNG terminals when harms outweigh their public benefits. The impacts outlined in DOE’s studies on LNG exports make clear that no new LNG capacity is aligned with the public interest.

According to the International Energy Association, the US already has more LNG capacity than is aligned with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and averting the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Methane gas production and consumption must decline immediately to meet climate goals. Additional supply and export infrastructure will undermine domestic and international efforts to prevent climate catastrophe by derailing the transition to renewable energy, by competing with wind, solar, and energy efficiency technologies.

The oil and gas industry builds LNG facilities in Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities that it sees as “sacrifice zones,” which are already heavily burdened by pollution. These mega-polluting projects will only harm frontline communities further, increasing their risk of cancer, asthma, preterm births, and other health problems.

Please leave a climate legacy by doing all you can to stop and delay the expansion of LNG.

Thank you,