In East Texas, organizers fight massive oil export pipeline planned for popular fishing grounds

Energy Transfer Partners, one of the nation’s largest pipeline companies, to build a pipeline to carry oil from the northern U.S. and Canada to a terminal where ships could fill their holds to carry that oil abroad. The project is part of an explosive growth in U.S. oil exports, which rose from an average of 42,000 barrels per day in 2010 to 3.3 million barrels per day in 2022, according to federal government figures.