Trump’s Pledge to Immediately Expand Energy Exports Could Hit an Early Snag

The Biden administration is expected to release a report on the impacts of liquified natural gas. Republicans are already calling it fake science.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event on energy infrastructure at the Cameron LNG export facility. Evan Vucci/AP

The Biden administration has yet to release its study on the impacts of natural gas exports, but Republicans in Congress have already said that any research that questions its expansion is fake science.

Republicans are teeing up their arguments for the coming fight over the future of the liquified natural gas industry in the United States. Donald Trump has pledged to immediately restart issuing export permits for liquified natural gas.

The Biden administration is expected by mid-December to release a long-awaited analysis of the effects of increasing LNG exports, the conclusions of which could snarl the speed at which the Trump administration has said it will fulfill its promises to the natural gas industry.