In the other, off the coast of Freeport in the Gulf of Mexico, roughly 50 miles south of Galveston, a corporate pipeline developer received federal approval to build the nation’s largest oil export terminal. The project includes two 36-inch underwater pipelines that would transport crude oil from a pipeline network in Houston under Surfside Beach before connecting to a new deepwater port 30 miles offshore. Once completed, the terminal would add 2 million barrels per day to the U.S. oil export capacity.
At face value, an offshore wind farm in the Pacific and an oil export terminal in the Gulf are staggeringly contradictory. The former is a major down payment towards meeting our nation’s goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030; the latter would prop up a fossil fuel that contributes heavily to those emissions.
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Why Joe Biden’s pursuit of oil and gas and clean energy aren’t contradictory. [Editorial]
