Comment on FR Doc # 2026-11228

RE: Comment for Port Arthur LNG, LLC; Application for Blanket Authorization To Export Previously Imported Liquefied Natural Gas Notice (Docket No. 26-50-LNG) Dear Secretary Wright, On behalf of all of our youth clients, including our clients in Lighthiser v. Trump and Venner v. EPA, and in the interest of America’s children and youth, Our Children’s Trust provides these comments on the DOE’s “Port Arthur LNG, LLC; Application for Blanket Authorization To Export Previously Imported Liquefied Natural Gas” (LNG) notice of application which, if approved by the DOE, would facilitate fossil fuel development and consumption, which violates children’s constitutional rights to religious freedom, health, safety, and bodily integrity and is unjustified by law, science, economic prosperity, energy security, or any other reason. In addition to being illegal, approval of the proposed LNG export application would continue to unleash fossil fuels, worsening the adverse health effects of fossil fuel pollution our clients, are currently suffering directly through their inhalation and exposure to the localized pollution and the heat-trapping greenhouse gases from fossil fuels, resulting in further dangerous disruptions of the climate system on which these youths’ health and lives depend. As the Nation’s only law firm dedicated to representing children and youth whose constitutional rights are being infringed by government conduct that causes and contributes to climate change, we write to advise you that your approval of applications for blanket authorization for proposed LNG projects must be consistent with protecting the rights to life, personal security, family autonomy, bodily integrity, the practice and transmission of cultural and religious traditions, children’s equal protection of the law, and free exercise of religion. U.S. Const. amend. V, XIV, § 1, I; 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-1 (Religious Freedom Restoration Act). Here, an approval of Port Arthur’s application would be an unconstitutional effort to implement the President’s Executive Orders 14154 and 14156, in violation of U.S. Const. amend. V, XIV, § 1, I; 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-1 (Religious Freedom Restoration Act). Efforts by the DOE to support this LNG export project also violate the separation of powers, by exceeding the authority the DOE has been delegated by Congress and by engaging in conduct that has a significant effect on U.S. public health, welfare and the economy, while lacking any scientific integrity as Congress has mandated. Congress has not given the DOE the statutory authority to deprive children and youth of their fundamental rights listed above, nor does DOE have the delegated authority to interpret statutes in a manner that contravenes the U.S. Constitution. Please see attached comment. Sincerely, /s/ Julia Olson Co-executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel julia@ourchildrenstrust.org Our Children’s Trust P.O. Box 5181 Eugene, OR 97405