Citing Climate, Environmentalists Urge DOE To Scrap Trump-Era LNG Policy

Environmental groups are urging the Energy Department (DOE) to reverse course from a Trump-era policy that says the department will generally issue approvals of industry requests to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) out to 2050, arguing three recent applications would be inconsistent with the Biden administration’s greenhouse gas goals. In a series of requests filed earlier this month to formally intervene in DOE’s consideration of the LNG export requests, the groups urge the department to reconsider an August 2020 determination...