Green activists push Biden to freeze ‘disastrous’ deepwater oil export rigs
by Oliver Milman from Environment | The Guardian on (#6MY24)
Sensing election-year traction, coalition of 20 environmental groups also demand entrenchment of pause in gas-export licences
Joe Biden's administration is coming under renewed pressure to escalate its curbs on the US's booming trade in fossil fuels by halting new deepwater oil-export facilities, as well as entrenching its pause in gas-export licences.
A coalition of 20 environmental groups, sensing election-year traction with Biden as he seeks a second term as US president, has written to officials demanding a freeze on deepwater oil-export facilities, similar to the move announced by the Biden administration earlier this year when it paused new licenses for liquified natural gas (or LNG) exports.
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