As the rented minivan navigates the Houston suburbs and the first petrochemical facilities come into view, the reaction inside the vehicle is like there’s been a celebrity sighting. “Look over there,” says Constantin Zerger, at the wheel, pointing out a flare blazing over a refinery to the south, a method of burning off excess gas that is largely forbidden in his home country. He and the van’s five passengers—journalists and environmental activists visiting from Germany—lean toward the windows to get a better glimpse of the industrial sites they have traveled thousands of miles to see.This trip, on a sunny day in November, has been organized around a subject that has lately occupied much of Zerger’s mind: liquefied natural gas. A trim and focused man in…
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