Doug Jackson, 202.495.3045 or doug.jackson@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a commitment to “spreading freedom gas throughout the world” and its intent to push a “regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported.” The statement was ostensibly about increasing the amount of fracked gas that could be exported from a terminal in Texas.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
"No one should expect an Administration that tears apart families at the border or contaminates our air and water with toxic pollution to understand freedom, but this is another low. Freedom isn’t American communities saddled with undrinkable water, families getting sick from pollution or neighborhoods getting cut up by dirty, dangerous fracked gas pipelines.
“The Trump Administration is dressing up its push to help corporate polluters profit in patriotic rhetoric while they launch assault after assault on the health of our communities and our families. It is past time this administration focuses on preserving freedom here at home rather than destroying our communities to help a few billionaires make more money.”
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