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Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act, a key bill to end billions in subsidies flowing to oil, gas, and coal.

“It is critical that President Biden continues to highlight the climate crisis in his speeches, but we cannot ignore that the United States is the world’s largest producer, expander, and exporter of oil and gas.

(Washington, DC) – Over a dozen climate activists were arrested at the Capitol today after disrupting the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s hearing examining the Biden administration's pause on approvals for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. The pause, which is widely celebrated by climate and movement leaders alike, would allow the Department of Energy (DOE) to update the public interest determination process instead of rubber stamping approvals without pr...

This week, the U.S. Export-Import Bank approved $90 million for marketing a Freeport liquified natural gas project in Texas.

Over 300 organizations released a letter calling on President Biden to abandon his support for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at COP28 in Dubai.

Over 300 organizations from over 40 countries across the globe released a letter today calling on the Biden Administration to abandon its support for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at COP28.

On Friday, December 8, an international coalition of organizations and community leaders, including the Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development Philippines, Center for Biological Diversity, Climate Action Network Canada, Earthworks, Oil Change International, Solutions For Our Climate, and others will gather for a creative action and speak-out on the need to end approvals and finance for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) projects, extraction, export, and import.

"The U.S. can help shift billions from dirty energy to renewables, but EXIM's fossil fuel approvals like Liwathon are a huge step backward."

Biden unfortunately has once again chosen Big Oil profits over what's right for the climate and Gulf communities.

"Sacrificing millions of acres in the Gulf is a gross denial of reality by Joe Biden in the face of climate catastrophe," said Collin Rees.