'Ukraine is a false justification': America's destructive new rush for natural gas.

About 30 miles south of New Orleans, a construction site visible from space is rising. Sandwiched between the Mississippi River and disappearing wetlands, the 256-hectare (632-acre) site is visited by a stream of tipper trucks and concrete mixers that stir up dust on Louisiana 23, the state highway that goes down to Venice, the last spot of land before the river's water flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The wetlands protect the area from hurricane surge and provide critical habitat for fisheries. But when completed in 2025, the construction...