Huge Win: Biden Admin Pauses Liquid Natural Gas Exports

Environmental justice and climate advocates celebrated on Friday as the Biden administration announced that it was pausing approvals for all liquefied natural gas exports to non-Fair Trade Agreement countries in order to review the criteria it uses to approve or reject them.

In a statement, the White House said that the criteria used by the Department of Energy (DOE) was "roughly five years old" and therefore did not "adequately account for considerations like potential energy cost increases for American consumers and manufacturers beyond current authorizations or the latest assessment of the impact of greenhouse gas emissions."

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