Biden administration quietly approves huge oil export project despite climate action rhetoric
Dylan Baddour reports: 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 Nation’s annual climate conference wrapped up in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt. Earthworks, an environmental nonprofit, spotted the filing…