The U.S. is touting its climate progress ahead of a key UN climate summit. But did you know that while we’re making historic clean energy investments, we are undermining that progress by exporting more fossil fuel pollution overseas than ever before?
The U.S. is now the largest exporter of methane gas in the world, and the fossil fuel industry is rapidly building new export infrastructure in the same communities that are already bearing the brunt of fossil fuel pollution. Here’s how oil and gas exports are undermining U.S. progress on climate and environmental justice, and what Earthjustice is doing about it.
An Oil and Gas Export Boom is Entrenching Fossil Fuel Use
Fossil fuel companies are pushing a buildout of export facilities to sell oil and gas overseas at record profits.
U.S. gas exports hit a record high in the first half of 2023, entrenching our position as the
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