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Op-Ed

The Looming Biden Climate Test for Natural-Gas Exports

National Review

January 25, 2024

Should you doubt the magnitude of the Biden administration’s ideological crusade against fossil fuels, merely consider the recent reports that the Department of Energy is considering the addition of a “climate test” criterion for approval of export facilities for liquefied natural gas (LNG). This would be in addition to the politicized “public interest” analysis to which such proposals have been subjected until now, yielding delay and uncertainty for industry and full employment for bureaucrats.

Put aside the reality that fossil-fuel resources are an important form of national wealth, the production of which increases economic growth, individual incomes, and wages, reduces poverty, and yields revenues for federalstate, and local programs.

Read the entire article in National Review.