Biden Administration Halts LNG Export Project Okays for Review Revamp

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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.
51% : Under White House direction, the U.S. Energy Dept. has instituted a "temporary pause" in approving applications for liquefied natural gas projects seeking export licenses to countries that have no U.S. free trade agreements, the agency announced Jan. 26.
47% : Under the Natural Gas Act, FERC is responsible for approving construction and siting of onshore and near-shore LNG export facilities, and DOE approves LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries, which includes only 20 countries, with none in Europe.
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," she said.

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