Texas LNG Export Terminal Deadline Extension Upheld on Appeal

A Texas environmental advocacy group lost its bid Wednesday to get a construction deadline extension rescinded for a liquefied natural gas project originally approved in 2020.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said in its denial of the group’s petition for review that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s extension decision was supported by “substantial evidence in the record.”

The South Texas Environmental Justice Network challenged the decision to issue a third construction deadline extension to Texas LNG Brownsville LLC for its LNG export terminal. The permit was issued in May 2020, but construction didn’t begin in ...