The Biden administration is asking a federal court to halt litigation over its pause on new liquefied natural gas export authorizations, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House next month.
“If it grants the stay, the Court will likely avoid adjudicating administrative record and summary judgment disputes that will likely become moot in a matter of months,” parties in the lawsuit told the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Thursday.
The request — joined by the Oil and Gas Workers Association, the trade group that initially sued the administration — comes after Trump promised he would immediately lift Biden’s freeze on LNG exports to countries that don’t have a free-trade agreement with the U.S.
Stay requests of pending litigation involving the federal government are typical ahead of a change of administration.
