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A Closer Look at Politics Behind Biden Administration's LNG Permitting Pause
Here’s what U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said this week about the Biden administration’s pause on permitting for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports during her appearance at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing: • The LNG pause, announced by President Biden in January, to study U.S. LNG, is specifically focused on domestic natural gas prices, market demand and potential environmental effects. • The analysis should be finished “around the end of the year.” (Before week’s end, however, Brad Crabtree, the Energy Department’s assistant secretary for the Office of Fossil ... (full story)