Federal judge blocks Biden’s ban on new U.S. LNG export terminals
By
Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.
July 19th, 2024
Saying the Biden administration’s “pause” in approving new liquefied natural gas export terminals “is completely without reason or logic and is perhaps the epiphany of ideocracy,” U.S. District Judge James D. Cain on July 2 ordered the policy to be “stayed in its entirety, effective immediately.”
Attorneys general from 16 red states had petitioned the Louisiana-based court to lift the moratorium on approvals of new LNG export projects, arguing the White House had illegally skirted regulatory procedures.
Specifically, they said allowing the Department of Energy to conduct studies on the climate, economic, and national security impacts of approving more LNG export terminals conflicted with the Natural Gas Act’s provision that the department must ensure “expeditious completion” of such reviews in determining whether the projects “are in the public interest.”
https://www.cfact.org/2024/07/19/federal-judge-blocks-bidens-ban-on-new-u-s-lng-export-terminals/
