LNG Isn’t Helping My Community, No Matter What the GOP Says

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John Beard is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in Port Arthur, Texas.

Last Monday, April 8, Washington Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Republican South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan—two of the oil and gas industry’s biggest cronies—traveled to my home of Port Arthur, Texas , to push for the expansion of liquefied natural gas export facility buildouts in my community.

Price gouging corporations blame these catastrophes on American consumers, while gas prices skyrocket and families struggle to pay for escalating home insurance premiums.Port Arthur has had three operating refineries, and numerous other petrochemical facilities for many years. Yet, Port Arthur has a poverty rate of 28%, an unemployment rate that’s almost three times the national average at 10.4%, and some of the lowest home values in Texas.

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