CLIMATE

Environmentalists lost big on LNG exports. Now what?

Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E News reporter

Published: Wednesday, February 21, 2018

After years of fever-pitched opposition to liquefied natural gas exports, the Sierra Club quietly pulled its last LNG lawsuit from federal court last month. The withdrawal followed a series of losses in similar cases, a subdued end to environmentalists' chief legal campaign against shipping U.S. natural gas around the world.

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