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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

MASS GOP: HUH? Destoying its CREDIBILLITY....if it ever had any! WHAT KIND OF A NATION ARE WE?

              

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THERE ARE VIDEOS THAT DOCUMENT THE EXECUTIONS OF 2 U.S. CITIZENS 

IN MINNEAPOLIS THAT ICE GESTAPO, THE FBI, DOJ and ALL INVOLVED WOULD 

COVER UP....

FOR MASS GOP CANDIDATES PRETENDING THAT'S THE SOLE ISSUE, ALTHOUGH 

FABRICATED, NOT ONLY DEFIES LOGIC, BUT IGNORES WIDESPREAD 

ICE GESTAPO ABUSE THAT CONTINUES TO TERRORIZE COMMUNITIES, AMERICAN 

CITIZENS, DENIES DUE PROCESS, TRUMP FIRED IMMIGRATION ATTORNEYS,

REMOVED TPS, REMOVED ASYLUM SEEKERS - SEEKS TO DEPORT LAW ABIDING FAMILIES

WITH NO CRIMINAL RECORDS, INCREASED H1B VISA FEES TO $100,000 which will

force qualitified applicants to apply to other nations for FREE - MASSIVE US BRAIN

DRAIN! 

The statistics from ICE GESTAPO indicates that only a small portion of those being 

DETAINED in INHUMANE CONDITIONS have any criminal records. 

AMERICAN TAXPAYERS are funding not only INCOMPETENT ICE GESTAPO 

abuse. but the mass detention of PEOPLE, FAMILIES who have committed 

NO CRIME! 

WHAT IS ICE GESTAPO ABUSE COSTING TAXPAYERS? 

ICE GESTPO is building FOR PROFIT WAREHOUSES to 'DETAIN' people 

who have committed NO CRIMES and will be subjected to TORTURE, 

ABUSE, SEXUAL ASSAULT. INADEQUATE FOOD OR MEDICAL CARE.... 

RECORD SETTING DEATHS ARE OCCURING IN ICE FACILITIES.... 

SOME FROM BANNED CHOKEHOLDS... 

WHAT KIND OF A NATION ARE WE? 




 





‘A tragedy’: Mass. Republicans react to fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

January 26, 2026
A shrine to Alex Pretti has flowers, cnadles, and a sign that reads "Alex Pretti: ICU Nurse, neighbor, friend."
Flowers and candles make up a memorial to Alex Pretti on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pretti, an ICU nurse at a VA medical center, died on January 24 after being shot multiple times during a brief altercation with border patrol agents in the Eat Street district of Minneapolis.
Scott Olson  Getty Images North America


Massachusetts Republicans are weighing in on the fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis over the weekend, two-and-a-half weeks after another Minnesotan, Renee Good, was shot and killed by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent nearby.

Several of the Republicans reached by GBH News said they wanted to see an investigation of Pretti’s death, though Mass. GOP chair Amy Carnevale was an exception. There was also near unanimity that a recent phone call between President Donald Trump and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz augured well for a possible deescalation of tensions between federal agents and Minnesota residents opposed to their presence.

In a statement to GBH News, Mike Minogue, an Army veteran and former medical device company CEO who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, said he and his wife are praying for Pretti and his family and mourning his death, which Minogue termed a “tragedy.”

“We are a nation of law and order, and violence of any kind must not become normalized,” Minogue said. “Our law enforcement officials should not be exposed to risk for enforcing immigration laws and removing violent criminal illegal immigrants in order to make our communities safer. But it must be done while honoring our core American values, including the right to assemble peacefully.

“This incident deserves a thorough and transparent investigation, and I am encouraged to see the president and governor of Minnesota talking with the goal of transparency, deescalating the situation, and finding a solution that keeps law enforcement and citizens safe,” Minogue added.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Kennealy — a former private equity executive who served as former Gov. Charlie Baker’s secretary of administration and finance — also referenced the recent conversation between Trump and Walz, which the president described in unexpectedly positive terms after publicly feuding for months with Walz.

“As President Trump noted while recapping a productive conversation with Governor Walz, the priority in Minnesota and across the country is to get dangerous criminals off our streets and out of our state and nation,” Kennealy said in a statement. “That is easier to accomplish when federal, state, and local law enforcement cooperate with one another. It’s impossible to do that when Maura Healey and Michelle Wu stoke tensions for political points and have effectively turned Massachusetts into a sanctuary state. That ends when I’m governor.

“Any time there is an incident where law enforcement uses lethal force, there should be a full, transparent investigation with findings made public,” Kennealy added. “That should certainly happen in this instance.”

Healey has rejected the characterization of Massachusetts as a sanctuary state.

A third Republican gubernatorial candidate, ex-Marine and venture capitalist Brian Shortsleeve, struck a similar note to Minogue in a statement to GBH News.

“What happened on Saturday was a tragedy that demands a full and independent investigation,” Shortsleeve said. “I’m pleased that Gov. Walz and President Trump had a productive call, are working to cool tensions on both sides, and may have a path forward for reducing ICE’s presence in Minnesota neighborhoods while restoring much needed cooperation between local and federal officials on deporting known criminals.

“That is the right approach that protects due process and allows law enforcement to stay focused on deporting the worst of the worst who almost everyone agrees should be out of the country,” Shortsleeve added.

Lawyer and cryptocurrency advocate John Deaton, a former Marine who is seeking the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Ed Markey, said his initial response to Pretti’s death was “disbelief.” He decried what he described as a rush to judgment by both Republicans and Democrats.

“Unfortunately, we live in this world where there’s these two extreme sides — and immediately, if you consider yourself pro-ICE, you have to find a way to confirm your bias and make this a justified killing,” Deaton said. “And of course, if you are against ICE, then you’re rushing to confirm your bias that this is a homicide. And we saw that on both sides, whether it be elected leaders in Minnesota, whether it be [Homeland security secretary] Kristi Noem.

“These two extremes — to me, a man lost his life, and I think that our humanity deserves to sit back and let’s collect the facts before we [pass judgement],” Deaton said.

Deaton also cited the recent conversation between Walz and Trump, calling it “a ray of hopefully a silver lining in this dark cloud.”

Amy Carnevale, the chair of the Mass. GOP, highlighted the party’s support for law enforcement and did not call for an investigation into Pretti’s death in a statement to GBH News, though she did call it “tragic.”

“The tragic death in Minneapolis is a stark reminder that our law enforcement officers are being forced into life-or-death situations while doing their jobs and protecting the public,” Carnevale said. “The MassGOP stands firmly with law enforcement and renews the call for state and local officials to cooperate fully with federal authorities on detainer requests, so immigration enforcement can take place out of our neighborhoods and off our streets.”

WGBH




Wednesday, January 28, 2026

‘A tragedy’: Mass. Republicans react to fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

                                                                                                                                                     

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IF REPUBLICANS DIDN'T LIE, NO ONE WOULD ELECT THEM! 

THIS STILL HOLDS TRUE! PROVE ME WRONG!

MASS GOP CANDIDATES FORMED OPINIONS WITH NO INFORMATION...

JUST BLIND OBEDIENCE TO TRUMP'S FAILED POLICIES.

ICE GESTAPO HIRED WITH NO BACKGROUND CHECKS, LIMITED TRAINING 

AND NO CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITIONS  - LIKE YOU CAN'T INVADE 

HOMES AND BREAK DOWN DOORS - INCLUDING INVADING IN THE MIDDLE 

OF THE NIGHT AS THEY DID IN CHICAGO.

Have any single MASS GOP calculated the cost of this IRRATIONAL FIASCO? 

Check the statistics. They are not arresting DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. 

Do you even know how many are in CONCENTRATION CAMPS that are unsuitable 

for human habitation? OVERFLOWING TOILETS with FECES on the floors, food 

with maggots when it's even available, no health care for emergency treatments...

HOW MANY HAVE DIED IN ICE GESTAPO CUSTODY? WHY? BEATING? 

TORTURE? CHOKEHOLDS? 

There was a  arecent article about ICE GESTAPO using BANNED CHOKEHOLDS....

Did a single MASS GOP TRUMPER read that report?


MASS GOP BABBLE SIMILAR PROPAGANDA IGNORING VIDEO EVIDENCE 

AND TRUMP'S OPPOSITION TO A COURT ORDER PROHIBITING THE DESTRUCTION 

OF EVIDENCE! 

DID ANY OF THEM VIEW THE VIDEOS? DO THEY EVEN RECOGNIZE THE ALEX 

PRETTI WAS HELPING A WOMAN THAT ICE GESTAPO PUSHED DOWN? 

HIS LAST WORDS WERE         ARE YOU OK? 

 ALEX PRETTI WAS SPRAYED IN THE FACE WITH PEPPER SPRAY OR BEAR

SPRAY, TACKLED TO THE GROUND BY ICE GESTAPO AND BEATEN WITH 

BATONS!

ALEX PRETTI WAS AN OBSERVER - HE HAD A CELL PHONE IN ONE HAND 

AND THE OTHER HAND WAS RAISED. 

ALEX PRETTI HAD A LEGAL LICENSE TO CARRY AND DID NOT 'BRANDISH' 

HIS WEAPON AS TRUMP LIARS HAVE CLAIMED. 

THE WEAPON FELL OUT DURING THE ICE GESTAPO BEATING. IT'S ON THE 

VIDEO. AN ICE GESTAPO AGENT GRABBED THE WEAPON AND LEFT THE 

SCENE. IF ALEX PRETTI WAS A THREAT, AS WAS CLAIMED, HE WAS 

DISARMED AND A THREAT NO LONGER EXISTED....YET ICE GESTAPO 

DISCHARGED THEIR WEAPONS WITH SO MANY SHOTS THEY WERE 

FORCED TO TURN HIS BODY OVER AND COUNT THE SHOTS, TAMPERING

WITH THE CRIME SCENE THAT THEY QUICKLY ABANDONED UNPROTECTED. 

DHS GESTAPO HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE IS BODY CAM 

FOOTAGE THAT THEY ARE 'REVIEWING' AND LIKELY TAMPERING WITH. 

WHERE ARE THEIR WEAPONS? ALREADY DESTROYED? 

iF THIS WAS THE FIRST ACT OF VIOLENCE OR MURDER BY ICE GESTAPO,

YOU COULD PRETEND...TRAGICALLY IT'S NOT! 

WHEN ICE GESTAPO INVADED MASSACHUSETTS, THERE WAS VIOLENCE 

AND ASSAULTS REPORTED.....DID THE MASS GOP IGNORE THOSE? 

HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE DID ICE GESTAPO ASSAULT? 

How about the VAN that ICE GESTAPO fill with TEAR GAS and toss 

FLASH BANGS under the vehicle discharging the AIR BAGS, causing a 

medical emergency for a CHILD NOT BREATHING...they were on their 

way home after a GAME - INNOCENT AMERICANS!

The list, evidence and videos of ICE GESTAPO ABUSE, ASSAULTS and 

INJURIES is endless. 

ICE GESTAPO broke down the door to an elderly man's house, forced 

him out into  the COLD inadequately clothed. He's a U.S. CITIZEN! 

ICE GESTAPO have arrested U.S. CITIZENS. 

ICE GESTAPO have kidnapped people off the streets. 

ICE GESTAPO are LAWLESS! NO WARRANTS! NO DUE PROCESS! 

DEFYING COURT ORDERS! 

ICE GESTAPO have assaulted PEACEFUL PROTESTERS! 

ICE GESTAPO DID THIS TO A PEACEFUL PROTESTER WHO WAS ACROSS THE 

STREET EXERCISING HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS: 


Anti-ICE protestor shot at, dragged, left blind after 6-hour surgery in altercation caught on video | Watch


https://www.wionews.com/trending/anti-ice-protestor-shot-at-dragged-left-blind-after-6-hour-surgery-in-altercation-caught-on-video-watch-1768385800299


AMY CARNEVALE'S UNINFORMED COMMENT DOES NOT INSPIIRE CREDIBILITY! 

AMY - INFORM YOURSELF! 

CARPETBAGGER & KNOWN LIAR JOHN DEATON is not a TRIAL PROSECUTOR and 

offered NONSENSE! 

EXPERIENCED HOMICIDE PROSECUTORS HAVE OFFERED THEIR EXPERTISE 

THAT NOT A SINGLE MASS GOP HAVE REVIEWED! 

If you believe TRUMP's description of his phone conversation with TIM WALZ, 

you are truly MORE STUPID than some of us believed. TRUMP is severely 

impaired, incapable of making coherent speeches, rambles incoherently, 

has undisclosed health issues, makes wild & irrational comments.... 

DAVOS was an AMERICAN HUMILIATION! 

THE SHIP IS SINKING! THE REST OF THE WORLD RECOGNIZES IT!

WILL YOU?


‘A tragedy’: Mass. Republicans react to fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

January 26, 2026
A shrine to Alex Pretti has flowers, cnadles, and a sign that reads "Alex Pretti: ICU Nurse, neighbor, friend."

Flowers and candles make up a memorial to Alex Pretti on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pretti, an ICU nurse at a VA medical center, died on January 24 after being shot multiple times during a brief altercation with border patrol agents in the Eat Street district of Minneapolis.
Scott Olson  Getty Images North America


Massachusetts Republicans are weighing in on the fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis over the weekend, two-and-a-half weeks after another Minnesotan, Renee Good, was shot and killed by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent nearby.

Several of the Republicans reached by GBH News said they wanted to see an investigation of Pretti’s death, though Mass. GOP chair Amy Carnevale was an exception. There was also near unanimity that a recent phone call between President Donald Trump and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz augured well for a possible deescalation of tensions between federal agents and Minnesota residents opposed to their presence.

In a statement to GBH News, Mike Minogue, an Army veteran and former medical device company CEO who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, said he and his wife are praying for Pretti and his family and mourning his death, which Minogue termed a “tragedy.”

“We are a nation of law and order, and violence of any kind must not become normalized,” Minogue said. “Our law enforcement officials should not be exposed to risk for enforcing immigration laws and removing violent criminal illegal immigrants in order to make our communities safer. But it must be done while honoring our core American values, including the right to assemble peacefully.

“This incident deserves a thorough and transparent investigation, and I am encouraged to see the president and governor of Minnesota talking with the goal of transparency, deescalating the situation, and finding a solution that keeps law enforcement and citizens safe,” Minogue added.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Kennealy — a former private equity executive who served as former Gov. Charlie Baker’s secretary of administration and finance — also referenced the recent conversation between Trump and Walz, which the president described in unexpectedly positive terms after publicly feuding for months with Walz.

“As President Trump noted while recapping a productive conversation with Governor Walz, the priority in Minnesota and across the country is to get dangerous criminals off our streets and out of our state and nation,” Kennealy said in a statement. “That is easier to accomplish when federal, state, and local law enforcement cooperate with one another. It’s impossible to do that when Maura Healey and Michelle Wu stoke tensions for political points and have effectively turned Massachusetts into a sanctuary state. That ends when I’m governor.

“Any time there is an incident where law enforcement uses lethal force, there should be a full, transparent investigation with findings made public,” Kennealy added. “That should certainly happen in this instance.”

Healey has rejected the characterization of Massachusetts as a sanctuary state.

A third Republican gubernatorial candidate, ex-Marine and venture capitalist Brian Shortsleeve, struck a similar note to Minogue in a statement to GBH News.

“What happened on Saturday was a tragedy that demands a full and independent investigation,” Shortsleeve said. “I’m pleased that Gov. Walz and President Trump had a productive call, are working to cool tensions on both sides, and may have a path forward for reducing ICE’s presence in Minnesota neighborhoods while restoring much needed cooperation between local and federal officials on deporting known criminals.

“That is the right approach that protects due process and allows law enforcement to stay focused on deporting the worst of the worst who almost everyone agrees should be out of the country,” Shortsleeve added.

Lawyer and cryptocurrency advocate John Deaton, a former Marine who is seeking the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Ed Markey, said his initial response to Pretti’s death was “disbelief.” He decried what he described as a rush to judgment by both Republicans and Democrats.

“Unfortunately, we live in this world where there’s these two extreme sides — and immediately, if you consider yourself pro-ICE, you have to find a way to confirm your bias and make this a justified killing,” Deaton said. “And of course, if you are against ICE, then you’re rushing to confirm your bias that this is a homicide. And we saw that on both sides, whether it be elected leaders in Minnesota, whether it be [Homeland security secretary] Kristi Noem.

“These two extremes — to me, a man lost his life, and I think that our humanity deserves to sit back and let’s collect the facts before we [pass judgement],” Deaton said.

Deaton also cited the recent conversation between Walz and Trump, calling it “a ray of hopefully a silver lining in this dark cloud.”

Amy Carnevale, the chair of the Mass. GOP, highlighted the party’s support for law enforcement and did not call for an investigation into Pretti’s death in a statement to GBH News, though she did call it “tragic.”

“The tragic death in Minneapolis is a stark reminder that our law enforcement officers are being forced into life-or-death situations while doing their jobs and protecting the public,” Carnevale said. “The MassGOP stands firmly with law enforcement and renews the call for state and local officials to cooperate fully with federal authorities on detainer requests, so immigration enforcement can take place out of our neighborhoods and off our streets.”

WGBH





Thursday, December 18, 2025

MASS GOP: BEATING THE SAME DEAD HORSES! Trump’s Surging LNG Exports Cost US Consumers $12 Billion in Just 9 Months

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CHARLIE BAKER'S MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT....CLEARLY EXPLAINED: 


 

December 18, 2025

By Jennifer Smith

The deadline for the final batch of communities to submit plans on how they expect to boost multifamily housing near transit is now just two weeks away, but the controversial MBTA Communities housing law saga will drag into 2026.

Most cities and towns, the state housing office regularly emphasizes, have gotten on board and submitted plans to zone for a district of multifamily housing near MBTA service areas, as called for in the 2021 law. But a group of holdouts is banking on the very court that declared the legislation mandatory – and enforceable – in January to rule that the mandate is illegal without dedicated funding included in the law.

Marshfield was one of a bundle of towns that wanted a Plymouth County Superior Court judge to declare they cannot be forced to rezone and bear the potential burden of more density. Lawmakers are not permitted to hand down “unfunded mandates” that create financial obligations on cities and towns without a way to pay for them.

But Superior Court Judge Mark Gildea dismissed suits brought by Duxbury, Hanson, Holden, Marshfield, Middleton, Wenham, Weston, and Wrentham, plus taxpayers in Hamilton. Gildea said the towns’ anticipated possible costs were “indirect,” nonspecific, and therefore not in need of dedicated funding from the state. Beyond that, he wrote, there are already available grants for infrastructure needs and the process.

Marshfield appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court, which agreed to take the case directly to consider the unfunded mandate question. The town argues that Gildea should not have agreed to dismiss the case, asserting that they did describe all the elements of an unfunded mandate in their complaint.

“In addition to suffering a irreparable loss of awarded grant funds in enumerated grant programs, it is/was foreclosed from all other discretionary grant funds not mentioned in the statute,” the town argues in its brief. Plus, the town says, there were costs associated with evaluating and drafting the zoning bylaws and presenting them to the Town Meeting, and they expect to have additional costs based on the rezoning.

The Healey administration has provided nearly $8 million worth of technical assistance and grants to more than 150 MBTA Communities to support the implementation of this law, the housing office said.

More Context


WHICH REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR PROMOTED THE MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT? 

SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE IGNORED MBTA PROBLEMS - NOW WANTS TO REPEAL MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT? WHERE WAS HE? COULDN'T SOLVE PROBLEMS ON THE MBTA, NOW GRANDSTANDS?


MIKE KENNEALY : JUST ANOTHER REPUBLICAN HACK IGNORING FACTS ...SMOKE & MIRRORS!

MIKE KENNEALY

MIKE KENNEALY excerpt:

"We focus on affordability, affordability in three dimensions, housing, energy and taxes," says Kennealy, the former Secretary of Housing and Economic Development under Gov. Charlie Baker who says he blanked the presidential race all three times Trump has been on the ballot. 

"And I think for those issues, it's state policy that's driving the affordability agenda. We simply don't have enough housing, and we took important steps in the Baker administration to try to drive the production of more housing. And I don't think the [Healey] administration has the right strategy on that. Energy costs are simply way too high, a lot due to state policy, and taxes -- you know, this administration, Beacon Hill keeps coming up with new proposals for new taxes, so no I don't think I agree with that." 


MBTA Communities Act

Kennealy was critical of the way the Healey administration has enforced the MBTA Communities Act, a Baker-era law that requires cities and towns served by the T to allow more multi-family housing or risk losing state grants. 

CBS MIKE KENNEALY

HOW COME YOU DIDN'T GET IT DONE MIKE? MAURA HEALEY DID!

 
MAGA MIKE KENNEALY whines on CBS (the NEW MAGA DISINFORMATION STATION) about HIGH ENERGY COSTS.... 
Did he INFORM HIMSELF? 

If REPUBLICANS didn't LIE no one would ELECT THEM! 
And "R" voters never research or scrutinize candidates because they're LAZY! 

TRUMP is sending LNG (METHANE - GAS) offshore - TRUMP is 
increasing YOUR ENERGY COSTS! 

Trump’s Surging LNG Exports Cost US Consumers $12 Billion in Just 9 Months


US LNG Unloaded At Revithoussa Terminal Near Athens

After departing from Lake Charles Port in the United States, the liquefied natural gas tanker BW MAGNOLIA unloads 

US LNG at the Revithoussa terminal in Megara, Greece, on December 1, 2025.

 (Photo by Nicolas Koutsokostas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Underscoring expert warnings that exporting liquefied natural gas not only worsens the climate emergency but also drives up energy prices for Americans, Public Citizen revealed Tuesday that as LNG exports surged under the Trump administration, US households paid $12 billion more in utility bills from January through September than they did last year.

In other words, “the costs borne by residential consumers in the first nine months of 2025 are up 22%,” or an average of $124 per family, according to an analysis of federal data by Tyson Slocum, director of the consumer advocacy group’s Energy Program and author of the new report. “LNG exports are also up 22% over that same time.”

His report highlights President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign pledges, pointing to a Newsweek op-ed and various speeches across the country. Slocum said in a statement that “Trump explicitly promised voters he would slash utility bills by half within the first year, yet in the first nine months of his term, they surged, squeezing some of the country’s most vulnerable households.”

Now, “1 in 6 Americans—21 million households—are behind on their energy bills,” which “are rising at twice the rate of inflation,” the report states. “Even registered Republican voters are increasingly blaming President Trump for the affordability crisis.”

“Limiting or prohibiting LNG exports would provide immediate relief for households across the country, but it would require action from the White House.”

It’s not just “higher domestic natural gas prices, driven primarily by record LNG exports,” affecting US utility prices, the report acknowledges. Other factors include “electric transmission and distribution costs, which include extreme weather and wildfire liabilities. These costs are administered by state or federal regulators and have been exacerbated by climate change.”

“Electricity demand load growth, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence data centers, along with transportation electrification,” is also having an impact, the document details. Additionally, “Trump’s unprecedented cancellation and revocation of billions of dollars of permitted renewable energy projects, combined with his unlawful abuse of emergency authorities to impose punitive tariffs, have injected chaos into domestic supply chains, stifling domestic investment in energy infrastructure.”

As the report explains:

Of these four factors, record natural gas exports not only represent the largest impact on natural gas prices, but feature clear statutory solutions to help protect consumers. The Natural Gas Act—passed by Congress during the Great Depression—asserts in Section 1 that “the business of transporting and selling natural gas for ultimate distribution to the public is affected with a public interest,” with the US Supreme Court affirming that the “primary aim” of this 87-year-old law is “to protect consumers against exploitation at the hands of natural gas companies.” Section 3 of the law forbids exports of natural gas unless the Department of Energy determines the exports to non-Free Trade Agreement countries are “consistent with the public interest.”

Rather than living up to those obligations, Slocum said, “Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have acted as global gas salesmen, traveling to Europe to push exports and gut European methane regulations while attacking mainstream climate science. Meanwhile, Trump has done nothing to keep prices down at home.”

“Limiting or prohibiting LNG exports would provide immediate relief for households across the country, but it would require action from the White House,” he added. “Trump would need to stand up to some of his fossil fuel donors to make our energy more affordable


It’s not just Public Citizen pushing for action by the president. US Sen. Edward Markey (D–Mass.)—the upper chamber’s leading champion of the Green New Deal—joined a press event for the group’s new report. He stressed that “record-breaking levels of natural gas exports are breaking the bank on your monthly energy bill.” T 

Public Citizen released the report just a day after Bloomberg also noted what the export boom means for US energy prices.

“We have been talking about, in apocalyptic terms, for a decade now when the world would start taking away America’s cheap gas,” Peter Gardett, CEO of Noreva, an energy trading platform specializing in power, told Bloomberg. “Well, we’re here.”





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