The Biden administration has approved construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States.
FILE - An oil tanker passes along a channel, March 2, 2022, in Port Aransas, Texas . President Joe Biden ’s administration has approved construction of The Sea Port Oil Terminal, a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. Environmentalists called the move a betrayal of Biden’s climate agenda and said would lead to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to nearly 90 coal fired-power plants. FILE - Sen.
In a statement after the license was approved, the Maritime Administration said the project meets a number of congressionally mandated requirements, including extensive environmental reviews and a federal determination that the port’s operation is in the national interest. “Although the emissions associated with the upstream production and downstream end use of the crude oil to be exported from the project may represent a significant amount of GHG emissions, these emissions largely already occur as part of the U.S. crude oil supply chain,’' the agency said in an email to The Associated Press. “Therefore, the project itself is likely to have minimal effect on the current GHG emissions associated with the overall U.S. crude oil supply chain.
Industry groups and Republicans have condemned the pause, saying LNG exports stabilize global energy markets, support thousands of American jobs and reduce global greenhouse emissions by transitioning countries away from coal, a far dirtier fossil fuel. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, hailed the license approval as “a major victory for Texas’s energy industry” and said the Biden administration had delayed the Sea Port terminal and other projects for years.
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