President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy has thrown its final gauntlet in the fight over the future of natural gas: a highly anticipated new report that details the negative impacts of dramatically increasing exports.
The report could become a procedural snag for a key pillar of Donald Trump’s energy agenda. The president-elect has promised to immediately begin issuing new permits for liquefied natural gas exports.
Biden’s administration examined the effects of increasing LNG exports during a yearlong pause on all new export permit approvals.