House Votes to Reverse Pause

US House Passes Bill to Reverse Biden’s LNG Pause (U.S. News & World Report)

Reuters (Feb. 15): The U.S. House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, passed a bill to reverse President Joe Biden’s pause on approvals of USLNG exports. The bill, sponsored by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), was approved by a vote of 224-200, mostly along party lines. The legislation aims to strip the DOE’s power to approve exports, leaving the independent FERC as the sole body approving USLNG projects. Pfluger argued that the world needs USLNG and called the pause a “catastrophic, politically based, and legally dubious ban” that must be reversed immediately. The White House strongly opposed the House bill but stopped short of a veto threat. ClearView Energy Partners, a nonpartisan policy research group, called the bill more of a “messaging effort and a start to debate than an end to the pause,” and said it was unlikely to clear the Senate. Link to Content