{"id":27314,"date":"2017-10-27T06:35:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27314"},"modified":"2017-10-27T06:35:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:35:36","slug":"minority-communities-suffer-from-storms-as-gop-and-trump-admin-promote-oil-and-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27314","title":{"rendered":"Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2017\/10\/26\/port-arthur-texas-hurricane-harvey-gop-rubio-cassidy-trump-oil-gas\">Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-12251 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/J46A7938-Edit-2.jpg?itok=A4cFw8_h\" alt=\"Pat Harris in her storm-damaged housing complex in Port Arthur, Texas\" width=\"810\" height=\"553\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-social-bar clearfix\">\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-share-wrapper new-horizontal-email-wrapper clearfix last\">While victims in Texas, Florida, and Puerto\u00a0Rico are still reeling from the devastation of three hurricanes worsened by a warming climate, the Trump administration and <span class=\"caps\">GOP<\/span> senators in the Gulf continued to push fossil fuel extraction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>On October 18, two senators who reject the science of climate change, Marco Rubio (R-<span class=\"caps\">FL<\/span>) and Bill Cassidy (R-<span class=\"caps\">LA<\/span>), teamed up to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/115\/bills\/s1981\/BILLS-115s1981is.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bill<\/a> to fast-track the regulatory process for exporting small-scale\u00a0liquefied natural gas (<span class=\"caps\">LNG<\/span>). And on October 24, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/secretary-zinke-announces-largest-oil-gas-lease-sale-us-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke proposed<\/a> the largest ever sale of oil and gas leases in the United States.\u00a0The plan would offer\u00a0nearly 77 million acres of federal waters in the Gulf\u00a0of Mexico for auction to the fossil fuel\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/J46A8025-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"Port Arthur's Prince Hall Village Apartments across from a Valero refinery\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Prince Hall Village Apartments across from Valero\u2019s Port Arthur refinery on October 13,\u00a02017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/114A6842-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"FEMA interviewing residents of a housing complex in Port Arthur, Texas\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span class=\"caps\">FEMA<\/span> interviewing residents at Prince Hall Village Apartments on September 20,\u00a02017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/marco-rubio-climate-change-clarification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rubio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2017\/02\/24\/louisiana-senator-bill-cassidy-pushes-natural-gas-climate-solution-contentious-town-hall-meetings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cassidy<\/a>\u00a0now\u00a0both acknowledge\u00a0that\u00a0the climate has changed, but don\u2019t think mankind plays a major role in the stronger and more frequent storms, droughts, heat waves, and floods documented by researchers. Both have touted the expansion of the natural gas industry as good for\u00a0the\u00a0climate, citing the fact that gas burns cleaner than coal.\u00a0But they ignore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2011\/04\/fracking-leaks-may-make-gas-dirtier-coal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scientific evidence<\/a> showing that when accounting for the production of natural gas, from extraction to delivery, the fuel could be worse for the climate than burning coal.<\/p>\n<p>Their proposed\u00a0legislation,\u00a0if passed, would likely lead to an expansion of the fracking industry to meet the needs of the global market, as DeSmog\u2019s Steve Horn has reported recently. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2017\/10\/22\/rubio-cassidy-small-scale-lng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In his article, Horn<\/a> explained the misnomer of \u201csmall-scale <span class=\"caps\">LNG<\/span>,\u201d writing that \u201csmall-scale <span class=\"caps\">LNG<\/span> does not refer necessarily to the actual amount of <span class=\"caps\">LNG<\/span> which will be exported from the site, but rather the size of the tankers carrying the natural gas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas While victims in Texas, Florida, and Puerto\u00a0Rico are still reeling from the devastation of three hurricanes worsened by a warming climate, the Trump administration and GOP senators in the Gulf continued to push fossil fuel extraction. 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