WRITTEN BY THOMAS CATENACCI ON JAN 19, 2024. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
As Arctic Blast Grips Nation, Green Groups Want Biden To Tank Natural Gas Project
A large coalition of environmental activist organizations is calling on the Biden administration to use a little-known regulatory maneuver to block a major natural gas expansion project in the Pacific Northwest.
In a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, more than 140 groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Columbia Riverkeeper, and Friends of the Earth called on the agency to intervene in the approval process of the Gas Transmission Northwest XPress Project (GTNXP). [emphasis, links added]
They argued the action was necessary because the project would hurt decarbonization goals and lead to pollution.
“As fossil fuel combustion is the primary contributor to the greenhouse gasses causing climate change, phasing out fossil fuel combustion as rapidly as possible is a policy imperative agreed upon by an overwhelming consensus of climate scientists,” the organizations wrote to Regan in their letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/as-arctic-blast-grips-nation-green-groups-want-biden-to-tank-natural-gas-project/
