The 2014 U.S. congressional mid-term elections are now complete, and the Republican Party controls both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Some have forecasted that this could have catastrophic impacts for progress on climate change and environmental protection in general.
But below the radar in Washington DC — little noticed by the media or public — a major change on energy policy has already been long in the making. Corporate lobbyists have helped to engineer a transformative shift with little scrutiny or meaningful debate: plans to extract U.S. natural gas and export the gas overseas to more lucrative markets.
Exploring this development is our new investigative report, titled “,” published jointly on DeSmogBlog and on Republic Report. This report will act as launching pad for an ongoing investigation and a prelude to an extensive series of articles by both websites uncovering the LNG exports influence peddling machine.
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The investigative series will track this shift towards fossil fuels exports that — if fully realized — will continue to transition the U.S. into a resource colony, where our communities, homes, air, and water are exploited and polluted so that large multinational corporations can pursue ever-higher profits by selling U.S. fossil fuels abroad.
The rise of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” oil and gas wells has resulted in an excess of oil and gas in the United States, lowering prices and clogging markets.
- Natural Gas Exports: Key Findings
- Natural Gas Exports: Introduction
- Natural Gas Exports: Democrats and the Obama Administration
- Natural Gas Exports: Our Energy Moment
- Natural Gas Exports: Bush Administration Aides and LNG
- Natural Gas Exports: Congress
- Natural Gas Exports: Koch Brothers and the Conservative Echo Chamber
- Natural Gas Exports: Conclusion
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