House Oversight and Accountability Committee Republicans are opening up a new line of attack against the Biden administration’s liquefied natural gas export review pause by saying the Department of Energy may be hiding a study conducted in 2023.
A Wednesday letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm led by Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) goes after the stated reason the administration decided in January to halt LNG export determinations for non-free-trade countries. A court has since blocked enforcement of the pause.
Granholm has said numerous times the move was necessary for a full-fledged study on the climate and price impacts of LNG exports, something the agency says it hasn’t done in years.
But the Republicans wrote, “Recently surfaced information raises concerns DOE is hiding a 2023 study on the impacts of LNG exports. According to reports, a draft 2023 study on the impacts of LNG exports was sent to senior Biden-Harris Administration officials, yet DOE has not mentioned or provided this draft study in communications or hearings before the House Oversight Committee.”
