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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
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Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News

Biden administration quietly approves huge Texas oil export project

A crude tanker docks at the Flint Hills Resources onshore export terminal in Corpus Christi.
A crude tanker docks at the Flint Hills Resources onshore export terminal in Corpus Christi. A federal agency this week approved plans for what would be the nation's largest oil export terminal to be built off the Texas coast. (Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News)

The Biden administration has approved plans to build the nation’s largest oil export terminal off the Gulf Coast of Texas, which would add 2 million barrels per day to the U.S. oil export capacity.

The approval by the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration was filed in the federal register on Monday without any public announcement, a day after the United Nations’ annual climate conference wrapped up in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt.

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