This is the Sunday story. I'm Aisha Roscoe. What if I told you that the US is the largest exporter of natural gas in the world?

It started with a fracking boom in the mid 2000s.

We, it turns out, are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.

We've got a lot of it.

A lot of it, enough to export.

Before NPR, I spent six years as an energy reporter,

and a big part of my job was covering the promise of natural gas. And we all know this fuel. It's what you might

use to cook your food or to heat your house. There's a form of this gas called Liquified Natural Gas or LNG, and that's when you take

natural gas and supercool it, reducing its volume to a much smaller size,

which makes it possible to load it up onto giant ships

headed to consumers across the world.

The promise of LNG was that it could be a bridge fuel for the US and the world,

taking us closer to a future reliant on renewable energy.

It's been heralded as safe, clean, and efficient.

Today on the Sunday story, we look at what that promise has meant for one community in Louisiana,

where much of the LNG export industry is based and how the

promises of LNG have not reflected reality. I'm joined by two reporters

based in New Orleans, Holly Parker and Karlalu Cowloon.

In their recent series, All Gassed up, they follow the journey of LNG from the Gulf Coast and on to Europe and Japan where much

of that gas ends up. Our conversation when we come back.

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