On the heels of recent court decisions forcing federal regulators to reconsider approvals of three liquefied natural gas terminals, the court is now being asked to do the same with a fourth — Venture Global’s proposed Calcasieu Pass 2 terminal in Louisiana.
On Sept. 4, environmental groups and residents filed two petitions asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reject the June decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission allowing the proposed $10 billion CP2 to be built.
Opponents of the plant in southwest Louisiana have labeled it a “carbon bomb” that would emit greenhouse gasses equivalent to 1.8 million gasoline-powered cars — more than the total number of vehicles registered in the entire state.
