Mexico’s push for US natural gas sparks community opposition and threatens its climate pledges

The sun has set and the clouds are washed in purple as Mauricio Contreras and his daughter Eunices head out to fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Contreras, an anchor dangling from a silver chain against his deeply tanned skin, has been doing this for more than 40 years. “When they started laying it, it affected us because the boats were dropping explosives and you could hear it all the way here, right on the shore,” Contreras recalls.