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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Milman

Green activists push Biden to freeze ‘disastrous’ deepwater oil export rigs

A hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010.
A hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010. Photograph: Lee Celano/Reuters

Joe Biden’s administration is coming under renewed pressure to escalate its curbs on the US’s booming trade in fossil fuels by halting new deepwater oil-export facilities, as well as entrenching its pause in gas-export licences.

A coalition of 20 environmental groups, sensing election-year traction with Biden as he seeks a second term as US president, has written to officials demanding a freeze on deepwater oil-export facilities, similar to the move announced by the Biden administration earlier this year when it paused new licenses for liquified natural gas (or LNG) exports.

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