Description: Challenge to FERC order granting new authorizations for LNG terminal in Cameron County, Texas on remand from 2021 D.C. Circuit decision.
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City of Port Isabel v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 07/10/2023 Petition for Review Download Petition for review filed. Lawsuit Filed to Challenge New FERC Review and Authorization for Texas LNG Project. The City of Port Isabel and Sierra Club filed a petition challenging FERC’s reauthorization on remand of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Brownsville Ship Channel in Cameron County, Texas. FERC issued an order granting authorizations for the project on remand from a 2021 D.C. Circuit decision that found that FERC failed to adequately analyze the project's climate change and environmental justice impacts. FERC addressed these issues in the order on remand. Regarding climate change, FERC disclosed, for informational purposes, estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases associated with emissions from construction and operation of the project, but FERC said that because there were no accepted tools or methods for determining significance of the emissions, it would not characterize the emissions as significant or insignificant. FERC also conducted a new analysis of environmental justice impacts and found that impacts on environmental justice populations would be disproportionately high and adverse but that only cumulative visual impacts would be significant.