Is the US going to approve the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth? | Roishetta Ozane and Bill McKibben

Biden has a chance to show that the world's biggest exporter of oil and gas is actually going to change its ways. It's not clear if he'll take it

More than 200 nations pledged last week in Dubai that they would be transitioning away from from fossil fuels". Some cheered and some scoffed; we'll soon know if the world's biggest producer of oil and gas - the United States - meant what it signed, or if it was just more (literal) hot air.

That's because the US Department of Energy (DoE) must decide whether to stop rubber-stamping the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth, the buildout of natural gas exports from the Gulf of Mexico. So far they have granted every export license anyone has requested, and as a result the US has become the biggest gas exporter on planet earth. If they keep it up, the veteran energy analyst Jeremy Symons says that before long US liquefied natural gas exports will produce more greenhouse gases than everything that happens on the continent of Europe.

Roishetta Ozane is the founder of the Vessel Project, a Louisiana environmental justice group

Bill McKibben is the founder of Third Act, which organizes people over 60 for action on climate and democracy