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Tom Pelton
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August 7, 2025

Louisiana LNG terminal plans massive expansion – and neighbors are fearful

On July 15, the Arlington, Virginia-based Venture Global Capital announced plans to roughly double the size of Plaquemines LNG, asking FERC to approve an expansion to as much as 52 million metric tons per year. The more than doubling of the plant’s capacity could more than double its pollution impact, although the exact numbers are not yet available.

News Briefs

August 6, 2025
Fact sheet details dozens of chemical plastics recycling plants planned across U.S.

As of June 2025, Oil & Gas Watch has collected data on 39 proposed chemical recycling projects, as well as three plants that are currently under construction.

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August 6, 2025
EPA delays new methane standards for oil and gas sites

New rules meant to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas pollution from oil and gas will be delayed until January 2027.

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August 6, 2025
Final environmental reviews issued for two Texas LNG terminals

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has completed environmental reviews for two liquified natural gas terminals in South Texas.

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Brendan Gibbons
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July 31, 2025

Facing gag order, Louisiana scientist resigned in protest. The support came pouring in.

Facing a gag order imposed on her by university leadership because her study on racial discrimination in petrochemical industry jobs reportedly angered Louisiana’s governor, Dr. Kimberly Terrell of Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic could remain silent and sacrifice her scientific integrity. Or she could resign in protest, speaking out publicly about an important issue and shining a light on the pressure campaign to keep her silent. She chose the second option.

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Courtney Bernhardt
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July 24, 2025

With 14 ethane cracker projects looming, analysts wonder whether companies are overbuilding

Market analysts are pointing to overbuilding an uncertainty caused by trade disputes as a reason for a cooling global market for ethylene, derived from oil and gas production. Despite this turbulence, as of June 2025, at least 14 projects to build new or expand U.S. ethylene production have been announced or are moving ahead,

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Tom Pelton
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July 17, 2025

In Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ bill, ugly contradictions and giveaways to industry

President Donald Trump campaigned on lowering energy costs, but his "Big Beautiful" spending bill is expected to raise energy costs for households by $280 per year. Rather than cutting carbon capture subsidies, it increases them, as long as that carbon is used to force more oil and gas out of the ground. It also lowered royalty rates paid by oil and gas companies to the federal government, increasing the national debt, along with opening up more public lands for drilling.

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Brendan Gibbons
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July 10, 2025

Bills that target the public's right to monitor air pollution are popping up in state legislatures

In 2024, the Louisiana legislature passed a bill that effectively bans community groups from using their own air monitoring to warn residents about pollution or publicly advocate for cleanup action. Industry advocates are pushing similar bills to restrict air pollution monitoring around the country, with Kentucky passing a similar law this year. Legislators in Ohio and West Virginia have also considered bills that would restrict the use of data from local groups doing their own independent air monitoring.

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In Depth Reports

The Lone Star State’s Gas Plant Boom

A wave of 130 natural gas power plant projects in the Lone Star State, proposed in part to feed the artificial intelligence boom, could release as much greenhouse gas pollution as 27 million cars and trucks driving for a year, according to a report from the Environmental Integrity Project.

Pollution from Oil Refineries with Outdated Boilers and Heaters

The Environmental Integrity Project examined publicly available data and records for the 20 petroleum refineries in the U.S. that reported emitting the most greenhouse gases in 2023. Out of the refinery boilers and heaters with age information, 87 percent of these units (739 of 845) are outdated.

Plastic's Toxic River

The Environmental Integrity Project examined the records of 70 U.S. facilities that make plastics or the main chemical ingredients in plastics and found they discharged almost 12 million pounds in 2023 of total nitrogen and phosphorus.

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