 White House is pausing approval on projects to export liquefied natural gas in order to conduct a climate review and joining us now to talk about this is climate activist Rochetta Usain. She's the director and founder of the Vessel Project of Louisiana Grassroots Environmental Justice Group. Rochetta thank you so much for talking to us we really appreciate it. You also live in Sulphur, Louisiana a town near several major liquefied natural gas terminals and we're showing some of the video of what it looks like to live near one and we're just trying to put this in perspective so folks understand why the administration might have done this sort of thing. You've had to deal with this firsthand what's it like? Thank you so much for having me Mr. Acosta. Yes I am a mom of six living here in Sulphur, Louisiana. You can imagine living in a town with the name Sulphur what it's like just from the name of the town. So we are you know surrounded by more than a dozen petrochemical and plastic polluting gas and oil facilities and three LNG facilities. Our air smells like rotten eggs. There's constant flaring as you can see in the video sounds like trains are coming back and forth. I have two children who suffer with asthma. I have children who suffer with other respiratory and skin conditions and all have been linked to its long term industrial exposure. Now me and my family is not alone in this. There are several families who are dealing with the same thing and we decided to get together and stand up for our children for their right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. And Rochetta we're looking at some of the video you sent us now and you can see this orange glow off in the distance. It looks very menacing. What are we looking at? What you're seeing is what they call a flare F L A R E. That is an intentional release of extra product from the facilities in an attempt for there not to be an explosion. You're seeing this view from my front door. My 20 year old daughter this video. That's how close we are to these facilities. Now you may ask the same question as me if there is a chance of an explosion. Why are these facilities so close to neighborhoods? But that's that's where they are and they want to build more than 20 more of these facilities along the Gulf Coast. Wow. And it's unbelievable that you can see houses right right by this and that the video was taken from your front doorstep is just unbelievable. And so what was your reaction when you heard about the administration issuing this decision that they were going to delay these exports? The Biden administration made a monumental decision in the fight for climate justice by announcing they are going to pause reviewing applications for new liquefied natural gas export facilities. We know in my community that there is nothing natural about LNG. In fact, it should be called LNG for liquefied methane gas due to the amount of methane pollution that they release every day. These facilities have proven to be more harmful than coal because of the way that they have to be shipped. Now my community is a community where there's fracking, extracting and exporting. And when these gases are exported in their ships across the water, they're more dangerous than coal. Why are they located in and near communities and schools? I have, you know, several videos, even from dropping my son who has epilepsy, dropping him off at school, and you can see the flare right across the street from the school's door. So you know, it's enough is enough that we can no longer put men and women in danger all for money. It's time out for putting policy before people and funds before family. We got to put people first. And this administration made a bold move, drew their line in the sand and stood up to dirty oil and gas. And we say bravo to this administration. We know that they've listened to us. We've marched. We've signed petitions. We've, you know, threatened sit-ins. And they heard our voices. And Roy, should I, I mean, for the folks at home who might say, oh, well, why don't they just move so they don't live near one of these places? What do you say to that? Well, this is our home. You know, it's carnival season right now, Mardi Gras season. And people from all over the world come to Louisiana for our carnivals, for our food, for our seafood, the shrimp and oysters and fish. We live here. We get to enjoy those things every day. This is where my children was born and raised. We have no plans of leaving. We feel like there is a brighter future and there is a way to, you know, bring in sustainable resources to our community. We're not talking about stopping everything today. We know that there's going to take a transition, right? All we're asking for is that community members be a part of the decisions for our community and that these decisions don't kill our children. All right, well, Rashida O'Zane, you're very passionate about this and thank you very much for your time. Thanks to your kids for getting that video as well. Always helps make it very relatable to folks so they understand what you're going through. Rashida, thanks very much for your time. Thank you so much. All right, good to talk.