Environmentalists Back LNG Export Pause Against Industry Rehearing Push

Environmentalists are defending the Energy Department’s (DOE) permitting pause for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports as it re-evaluates their climate and other effects, arguing the natural gas industry’s push to reconsider the decision is procedurally flawed. The petitions for rehearing -- filed by Commonwealth LNG , and trade associations including the American Petroleum Institute (API) -- “should be denied as procedurally improper because there is nothing to seek rehearing of,” reads a pair of March 12 response filings from Sierra...