Biden Administration Halts LNG Export Authorizations for Process Revamp

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : "The Energy Dept. has approved seven LNG export authorizations during the Biden administration and reaffirmed eight others.
65% : "We need to have an even greater understanding of the market need for the long term supply and demand of energy resources and the environmental factors," Granholm said.
54% : The U.S. Dept. of Energy, under direction from the White House, is instituting a "temporary pause" of decisions on applications for liquefied natural gas exports to non-Free Trade Agreement countries, officials announced Jan. 26.
53% : That project is followed in capacity by NextDecade's 3.73 Bcf/d Rio Grande LNG in Brownsville, Texas, and Venture Global's 3.32 Bcf/d Plaquemines project in Plaquemines Parish, La.Under the Natural Gas Act, FERC is responsible for approving construction and siting of onshore and near-shore LNG export facilities, and the Energy Dept. is responsible for approving LNG exports to non-Free Trade Agreement countries.
43% : Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice, said in a statement that building more LNG infrastructure "threatens to keep us locked into decades of fossil fuel use and climate-warming emissions.""As communities across the country face the devastating impacts of the climate crisis and fossil fuel pollution, it's never been clearer that rubber-stamping LNG exports is not in the public interest," Dillen said.

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