Thread by @Earthworks

1/ Is @POTUS breaking his promise to honor environmental justice and is instead positioning the U.S. as one of the world’s largest fossil fuel dealers? 🤔

🧵A thread on the cracks in Biden’s climate and environmental justice ambitions: 🧵

2/ Biden’s @EPA, @StateDept & @USACEGALVESTON say that Sea Port Oil Terminal (SPOT), a massive offshore oil export port, pipeline, and tank farm proposed through neighborhoods in Surfside, TX and in the Gulf Coast, would not impact low-income communities and communities of color.

3/ If approved, the SPOT project would emit 300 MILLION tons of greenhouse gasses each year, poisoning the air of Brazoria County where residents already live alongside a number of high-pollution facilities and experience serious challenges to their health and higher cancer rates

4/ Despite knowing the state of Texas has failed to keep Brazoria residents safe from unhealthy air pollution for decades, Biden’s @EPA recommended @DOTMARAD approve a project that will continue to put the community’s health at risk from toxic air pollution.

5/ The @EPA recognized the SPOT project as an environmental injustice, saying “more emphasis is needed to ensure that environmental justice and climate change considerations are included in the project for the protection of overburdened communities."

6/ The best way to protect overburdened communities from more exploitation and environmental racism is to #StopSPOT. @POTUS @EPA @buttigeig @DOTMARAD

7/ The companies behind SPOT, Enbridge and Enterprise, are not only responsible for the climate crisis but have appalling safety records: 360 pipeline incidents, the most reported incidents by any pipeline operator between 2010 and 2016. fractracker.org/2016/11/update…

8/ Indigenous, climate, youth & community groups have been calling on @POTUS to #StopFossilFuelExports, but it looks like he is siding w/ fossil fuel interests to globally lock us into decades of dirty emissions, when he could be a climate leader and #declareaclimateemergency

9/ @POTUS, the agencies led by Secretaries YOU nominated – @EPA, @buttigeig, @DOTMARAD – are allowing the fossil fuel industry to continue sacrificing the Gulf Coast so oil profiteers can get richer. Listen to #environmentaljustice leaders and the local community: STOP SPOT.