About the film

Port Arthur, Texas is a “refinery town”, home to the largest oil refinery in North America alongside many other petrochemical plants and industrial facilities. John Beard Jr. worked in a refinery for decades, as did his father before him. After retiring, John watches Port Arthur get hollowed out economically, while his neighbors die from pollution-related illness and more dirty plants appear and expand. Experiencing the climate-driven devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey, John is called to fight back. He becomes a leading opponent of fossil fuels in his community and a globe-trotting advocate as he takes on the latest extractive frontier threatening Port Arthur and the world: liquid natural gas export terminals.