Export Approvals News Today

The top U.S. fossil fuel lobbying group has filed a petition challenging the Biden administration’s pause on new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals. In the petition, filed Monday, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and six other trade groups called for a rehearing on the pause. They argued the move is “arbitrary and capricious” and…

Joe Biden has halted new natural gas export licences after bowing to pressure from net zero activists, in a move that risks squeezing supplies to Britain.

Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), one of the Biden administration’s most vocal intraparty critics on energy issues, vowed an investigation into the newly announced pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals. In a statement Friday morning, Manchin implied the decision to implement the pause was based on political considerations rather than “indisputable…

White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi outlined the scientific rationale behind the Biden administration’s pause on some liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals, but he acknowledged young and climate-focused voters as a key constituency when asked whether they influenced the decision to implement the pause. At Friday’s White House press briefing, Zaidi was asked whether…