The multibillion-dollar liquified natural gas industry has reshaped the landscape, the economy and the daily lives of the people who have lived in Cameron Parish for generations.
The Trump administration pushed lease sales through without environmental review. This is illegal because it violates several of the country’s bedrock environmental laws, writes Mathews, a lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the environmental groups that has sued the administration.
LNG shipped from Louisiana is increasingly keeping the lights on in Ukraine, where relentless Russian airstrikes have left the country scrambling for fuel. That pushes up gas prices in the US.
The storm-prone city is making its local utility design a $28 million incentive program to get hundreds more backup batteries into homes and businesses.
As more gas moves hundreds of miles by pipeline to an increased number of LNG export terminals licensed by the Trump administration, more pipeline leaks and explosions seem inevitable.
“We are not just statistics,” the writers emphasize. “We are families living in the shadows of corporate greed, forced to inhale the very toxins that threaten our lives.”
Like New Orleans, many small cities and towns are grappling with aging infrastructure and frequent boil-water notices.
The oil industry is spending millions in taxpayer subsidies to hide emissions underground rather than transitioning to renewables.
Lawyers for residents say that zoning that concentrates pollution in Black districts is a violation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast Guard. Critics say the Trump administration is undermining the Coast Guard’s other missions - and harming working-class boat captains while sparing industries with powerful lobbies.
