Biden and Big Green vs. LNG exports

 Federalist Wire:

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A bombshell report has uncovered that the Biden administration deliberately suppressed a key study challenging its decision to halt approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects in 2024.

According to a recent investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation, the administration finalized a draft in September 2023 that highlighted a surprising environmental benefit: increasing U.S. LNG exports could actually lower global emissions. Yet, this finding clashed with the narrative pushed by environmental activists—and the administration’s own agenda—so it was shelved.

Insiders from President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy (DOE) shared with the Caller that the Biden DOE buried this inconvenient data to appease green advocates opposed to LNG.

“The Energy Department has learned that former Secretary [Jennifer] Granholm and the Biden White House intentionally buried a lot of data and released a skewed study to discredit the benefits of American LNG,” one source revealed.

The insider accused the administration of putting political goals ahead of the public’s well-being, adding, “They were prioritizing their own political ambitions over the interests of the American people, and the administration intentionally deceived the American public to advance an agenda that harmed American energy security, the environment and American lives.”

The story took a twist in December 2024, when then-Secretary Jennifer Granholm unveiled a revised version of the study—nearly a year after the LNG export pause began. In her analysis, she asserted that boosting LNG exports would spike greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, a stark contrast to the buried September 2023 draft.

Sources told the Caller that after that original draft was reviewed, a Biden official intervened, leaving a note for staff to halt work on it indefinitely. Classified as part of the internal deliberative process, that version never saw the light of day, and significant portions of it were later scrubbed.

The Caller’s investigation revealed a critical difference between the two reports. “While the September 2023 and December 2024 versions of the paper bear the same name, the final version released to the public did not include a specific type of analysis of LNG exports known as the consideration of market effects, Trump DOE sources told the DCNF,” the outlet noted.

This missing analysis, present in the suppressed draft, showed that U.S. LNG exports could reduce global emissions by replacing dirtier energy sources overseas. Without it, the December 2024 report painted a misleading picture, tilting the scales against LNG expansion.
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Natural gas has fewer emissions than other forms of fossil fuels.  I suspect that some Democrats sought to bury this to push the less efficient and more costly Big Green agenda.  The Biden Department of Energy agenda tried to hide reality.

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