House Oversight Republicans have gotten their hands on a 2023 Department of Energy study on liquefied natural gas exports, which they claim the Biden administration hid to justify additional scrutiny.
DOE last year, under then-President Joe Biden, paused national interest determinations for new LNG exports pending a review of the price and climate impacts. Officials, including then-Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, said such a study had not been done in years.
But House Republicans said the department had a 2023 study already on the shelf. On Wednesday, Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said new Energy Secretary Chris Wright had turned it over.
“Biden Administration officials, who religiously claimed to ‘follow the science,’ abandoned it to undermine American-made energy production, appease climate activists, and achieve their predetermined outcomes,” Comer said.
