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“Commission staff conclude that the emission impacts, including 1-hour NO2 and annual PM2.5 impacts from the Moss Lake compressor station and CP2 LNG terminal, when combined with past, present, and reasonably foreseeable emissions within the regional air environment are not significant,” FERC said on Friday.
“As such, we conclude that there would be no significant cumulative air quality impacts,” it said.
The draft supplemental EIS comment period closes at 5:00 pm Eastern Time on March 31, 2025.
In a 2-1 decision, FERC commissioners approved the project and the project’s pipeline during a meeting in June last year.
In July last year, the regulator issued a final environmental impact statement for the CP2 LNG project, Venture Global’s third LNG export terminal.
After that, FERC issued an order in November 2024 setting aside its approval of the CP2 LNG export facility.
The decision came in response to a request for rehearing filed by Sierra Club, NRDC, and a broad coalition of community and environmental organizations.
Besides the FERC approval, CP2 LNG also needs non-FTA export authorization from the US Department of Energy.
Last month, US President Donald Trump lifted a moratorium by the former Biden administration on non-FTA LNG export permits.
Trump issued the executive order, which was widely expected, just hours after officially taking over his second four-year term as the president.
The CP2 LNG plant will be located next to Venture Global’s existing Calcasieu Pass liquefaction plant in Louisiana, which is still in the commissioning phase.
It will have 18 liquefaction blocks, each with a capacity of about 1.1 mtpa of LNG, and also four 200,000-cbm full containment LNG storage tanks.
While working on the Calcasieu Pass and Plaquemines projects, which recently started exporting commissioning cargoes, Venture Global also filed for its IPO in December 2024 and started trading on the NYSE.
The company plans to boost its export capacity to 104.4 mtpa via five projects by 2034.