Inside the battle to stop methane exports from South Texas

Get the Full StoryAs legal efforts fall short, residents are pursuing a novel strategy to halt the building of export terminals on unspoiled wetlands: Lobby Europeans to reject gas from the U.S.

In the Rio Grande Valley along the U.S.-Mexico border, residents are battling to preserve some of the last pristine wetlands on the Texas coast. They had won some victories against businesses building terminals to ship millions of tons of liquefied natural gas LNG , an atmosphere-heating fossil fuel, to Europe and Asia from Brownsville, Texas.

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