House Oversight Republicans will hold a hearing on the Biden administration’s liquefied natural gas export permitting pause as the Department of Energy prepares to release a much-anticipated study of the economic and climate impacts of the practice.
Several people familiar with the situation, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said the report — the stated reason for the pause — could come out as soon as this week.
They expect the research to show that LNG exports drive up domestic gas prices and may be worse for climate change than coal in certain places.
Republicans have escalated their fight against the pause — on hold by court order — and the related research since President-elect Donald Trump won the election. They say the current administration has no business pursuing its LNG agenda.
