Along this stretch of the Gulf Coast where wetlands yield to fuel and petrochemical plants, chatter has predictably turned to Europe’s energy dilemma, with giddy projections that it will feed the rapid growth of hulking gas export terminals here. But Roishetta Ozane isn’t feeling the excitement. The climate and local environmental risks such a boom would bring, she said, are not an abstraction to her. They are her lived experience. The single mother of six saw her Section 8 rental home wrecked in 2020 by Hurricane Laura . Months after the family tried to move back in, living under a tarp and using a piece of plywood to cover the gaping hole where the back door had been, Hurricane Delta filled the place with water. Ozane’s family is now living in a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer. “People are getting tired of this,” said Ozane, […]