Ben Jealous: Gas is dirty. LNG proponents don’t just ignore the facts, they ignore the human toll.

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Not long after her adopted twins came to live with her in Freeport, Texas, Melanie Oldham saw their health start to decline. Both children were diagnosed with severe asthma.& As Oldham sent the twins to school—every day with their inhalers—she realized a lot of the kids in her part of Brazoria County had bad asthma. She also began to see that other serious chronic illnesses were rampant in her community.& “It’s shocking the number of people in their 50s that already have severe COPD, all the skin problems we know are caused by different types of emissions, premature heart attacks, spikes in certain types of cancers—including one form of childhood leukemia—and the number of children with asthma is staggering.” Those emissions she is referring to are from the oil, gas, and petrochemical plants peppering the landscape of her part of the Gulf Coast. Increasingly, the source of that pollution is the growing number of liquefied methane gas (commonly referred to as LNG) facilities in the region. Freeport LNG, in Oldham’s town, is the third largest& LNG export terminal by capacity& in the country. The largest is Sabine Pass LNG, just a few hours along the coast from Freeport. That facility...