Biden throws up a last-minute obstacle to Trump’s natural gas plans

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1. The Biden administration on Tuesday released a long-awaited analysis of the dangers that liquefied natural gas exports pose to the environment and the economy, raising a potential hurdle to a central part of President-elect [Donald Trump](https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2)’s energy agenda.

   The Energy Department [study](https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/LNGUpdate_SummaryReport_Dec2024_12pm.pdf) could undermine Trump’s plans to immediately issue permits for billions of dollars’ worth of facilities that export liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Environmentalists plan to cite the analysis in future lawsuits over the Trump administration’s approvals of these projects, which some have called “climate bombs” because of their enormous environmental footprints.

   The incoming administration “clearly wants to take a different approach and start approving permits as fast as they can. But the study’s findings could complicate that approach,” said Ben Cahill, an energy scholar at the University of Texas at Austin.

   Read more here: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/12/17/lng-exports-study-biden-trump/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/12/17/lng-exports-study-biden-trump/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com)

2. I’m no fan of Trump but Biden helped ramp up the production of LNG in the US and brought the US to be the biggest distributor

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