Last Tuesday, a bevy of elected officials, led by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, joined environmental activists like me for a press conference calling for a halt to LNG exports based in part on new research findings on methane.
You'd think that would interest the Department of Energy, which is in charge of granting export licenses for LNG plants-indeed it's licensed seven that are already up and running, certifying that they were in "the public interest" and in the process making America the largest natural gas exporter on Earth.
But industry has proposed 20 more of these giant terminals; if it gets its way, in a few years America's exports of natural gas will produce about as much greenhouse gas as everything that happens in Europe-every car and house and factory.
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