In January 2024, the Biden administration halted approval for liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects, saying they needed to conduct additional environmental and economic impact studies.
It turns out that the administration already had the study it needed but hid its information from the public and ignored its recommendations.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that the Biden administration “deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas.”
Moreover, according to sources at the Department of Energy, “The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze.”
The Biden DOE had essentially completed the final draft version of the LNG impacts study by the end of September 2023, and that version was ready to be presented to top Biden officials shortly thereafter, Trump DOE sources told the DCNF. That particular iteration of the study, DOE sources told the DCNF, found that increasing U.S. LNG exports would actually bring about a reduction in global emissions relative to other scenarios. [Emphasis added]
The September 2023 version of the study “was never released publicly,” and the Biden DOE “appears to have deleted numerous pages that appeared in the September 2023 draft version from what became the final version of the report released to the public at the end of 2024,” the sources told DCNF. […]
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