Sierra Club of Hawai’i and Greenpeace USA host two screenings and discussions examining risk LNG poses to local communities

HONOLULU, HAWAIʻI (September 11, 2026) – As Hawaiʻi faces growing interest from the fossil fuel industry and potential plans to expand liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure and exports, a new documentary is bringing the human and environmental costs of fossil fuel development into focus.

GASLIT, a documentary featuring Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda, sold out its free screening  at the Honolulu Museum of Art on September 11th from 7:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m. HST.

A second screening is scheduled for September 12th, at Patagonia Haleʻiwa from 6:30 p.m – 9:30 p.m HST. This showing will also include a silent auction benefiting the Lāhui Foundation’s Post-Flood Recovery Efforts.

Following both screenings, a panel discussion with Wayne Chung Tanaka, Executive Director, Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi; Pāhonu Coleman, youth plaintiff in the historic Navahine climate lawsuit and settlement, and Melanie Oldham, Executive Director of Better Brazoria Clean Air & Water, will take place. 

These screenings come as communities across the country continue to push back against new fossil fuel infrastructure and question whether LNG expansion is compatible with a safe climate future. For Hawaiʻi, the conversation is particularly important as the state works toward a clean energy transition while facing pressure from fossil fuel interests.

“We know the threats that importing this planet-killing fossil fuel will pose to our pocketbooks, public safety, public health, and local environment, ” said Sierra Club Executive Director, Wayne Chung Tanaka. “This film helps us to understand the deep harms inflicted on those living on the other end of the LNG pipeline.”

Since 2023, the U.S. has become the world’s largest exporter of LNG, and oil and gas companies are simultaneously fueling a massive boom in plastics production, doubling down on petrochemicals to secure their long-term future. GASLIT is both a call to action and a reflection on the decades-long struggle between the survival of frontline communities and fossil fuel encroachment.

“GASLIT is a visual representation of the people fighting tooth and nail for their lives every day in Texas and Louisiana, but their stories resemble that of so many others across the country,” said Katie Camosy, Director of GASLIT. “We want people to support the folks in the film, and we also want them to leave the theater ready to talk to their neighbors. We hope they consider what polluting industries might be doing in their own backyards.”

Although Hawaiʻi has long been recognized for its leadership on clean energy, the state remains a potential target for expanding LNG infrastructure and markets throughout the Pacific. Advocates have been raising concerns that a recent LNG proposal for Oʻahu could lock communities into decades of additional pollution and dependency on imported fossil fuels, while putting public health, climate goals, local ecosystems, and the local economy at risk. 

Tickets to the remaining GASLIT screenings and discussions are free and can be reserved directly from here.

GASLIT SYNOPSIS:

In GASLIT, Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda embarks on a road trip through Texas oil fields and Gulf Coast communities, meeting the people who are fighting back against the oil and gas extraction boom. This boom, which has led to the United States becoming the world’s biggest liquefied “natural” gas (LNG) exporter, is also fueling a massive expansion of plastics production, as fossil fuel companies double down on petrochemicals to secure their future. These are the stories of the shrimpers, cattle ranchers, former oil workers, families, members of faith communities, community organizers, self-described “reluctant activists,” and people across political and cultural spectrums who have come together in defense of the communities and coastlines they love. Join Fonda as she travels across Texas and Louisiana bearing witness to the decades-long struggle between fossil fuel profiteering and the lives of everyday people.

FULL TRAILER HERE

For more information visit: www.gaslitdoc.com 

Instagram: @gaslitdoc

Media interested in reserving a spot at either screening and/or interviewing GASLIT director Katie Camosy or panelists Wayne Chung Tanaka and Melanie Oldham should contact: Leeza Jackson, Greenpeace USA Communications Specialist, [email protected]

ABOUT GREENPEACE USA:

Greenpeace USA (Greenpeace Inc.) is an independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest, creative communication, public advocacy, and lobbying to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green, just, and peaceful future. Greenpeace USA has been bearing witness to and demanding action on climate change for most of its nearly five decades of campaigning. Having partnered with communities on campaigns in the Permian Basin and the Gulf South for decades, Greenpeace USA forged strong relationships with the grassroots movements working hard to push back against the expansion of polluting fossil fuel and petrochemical infrastructure in the best interest of local communities. These local ties — along with the relationships actor and activist Jane Fonda has established through Greenpeace USA’s Fire Drill Fridays collaboration — uniquely positions Greenpeace USA, as part of the Greenpeace global network, to tell the stories of how actionstaking place in the Gulf South and the Texas Permian Basin have an impact well beyond U.S. borders.