{"publisher":{"name":"MediaBias News","url":"https://mediabias.news","methodology":"https://mediabias.news/methodology","editorialPrinciples":"https://mediabias.news/editorial-principles","corrections":"https://mediabias.news/corrections"},"scoreGuide":{"trust":"How well corroborated and evidenced the source reporting is. 0-100, higher is better.","critic":"Craft quality of the source journalism: context, balance, fact vs comment. 0-100, higher is better.","hype":"How far the source presentation runs ahead of substance. 0-100, LOWER IS BETTER.","scope":"Scores assess the original reporting this article was written from, not the truth of the underlying event and not the quality of this write-up."},"assessmentGuide":{"type":"coverage-and-source-reporting-analysis","factCheck":{"status":"not-performed","note":"Media Bias News compares coverage and scores the source reporting. 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Environmental groups warn the project could damage 470 acres of wetlands, exacerbating coastal erosion in a region already losing land to rising seas.","category":"Business & Economy","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-08-13T05:25:35.951Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-13T05:25:35.951Z","readTime":"5 min read","scores":{"trust":64,"critic":95,"hype":15,"notes":{"trust":"Trust 64 because report names a source (Matt Rota), provides figures with origins, and specifies dates and locations.","critic":"Critic 95 for clear context, quoted stakeholder, specific data, and explanation of future permitting impacts.","hype":"Hype 15; language is factual with minimal sensational phrasing."}},"tags":["#LNGExpansion","#PlaqueminesLNG","#TrumpAdministration","#WetlandsDestruction","#EnergyPermitting","#CoastalErosion"],"entities":["Plaquemines LNG","U.S. Army Corps of Engineers","Venture Global","Matt Rota","Healthy Gulf","Plaquemines Parish"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted Plaquemines LNG a fast-tracked permit under a national energy emergency declared by President Trump, reducing the public comment period from 30 days to 10 days.","The $18bn expansion would increase the terminal’s size from 590 acres to 1,220 acres, potentially damaging up to 470 acres of wetlands in Plaquemines Parish.","Environmental groups warn the project could worsen Louisiana’s coastal crisis, with Matt Rota of Healthy Gulf calling the destruction of 400 acres of wetlands \"ridiculous.\"","No right-rated outlet covered the story, according to the reports below."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted fast-tracked permitting for an expansion of the Plaquemines LNG export terminal in Louisiana, cutting the public comment period from the usual 30 days to 10 days. The expansion, costing an estimated $18bn, would increase the terminal’s size from about 590 acres to roughly 1,220 acres. The project could damage up to 470 acres of wetlands in Plaquemines Parish, according to the Corps’ estimates."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The terminal, owned by Virginia-based Venture Global, is located on the Mississippi River between Myrtle Grove and Port Sulphur, about 25 miles south of New Orleans. It began operations less than two years ago and is already one of Louisiana’s largest industrial facilities, with 1.3 miles of river frontage, three ship berths, and nearly 30 miles of natural gas pipeline. The expansion would increase its production capacity from 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas per year to around 2.3 trillion."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Environmental groups have raised concerns about the expedited review process, which they say could reduce scrutiny of dredging, in-water construction, and the filling of marshlands. Plaquemines Parish has lost more than 250 square miles of land over the past 60 years due to subsidence, sea level rise, and erosion. The state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority projects another 300 square miles could disappear over the next 50 years."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Matt Rota, senior policy director of Healthy Gulf, told the Associated Press and Washington Top News that destroying an additional 400 acres of wetlands would exacerbate the coastal crisis. \"Louisiana is already dealing with a coastal crisis,\" Rota said. \"Destroying 400 more acres in Plaquemines Parish is ridiculous. I don’t know how many acres they have left, but it’s not that much.\""},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No right-rated outlet ran this story at all, according to the reports printed below. None of the centre-rated digests mentioned the terminal’s greenhouse gas emissions or its role in exporting gas to Europe. 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