Q: Pause On LNG For Election Votes? Why Not Pause On Day 1? Switch To Dirty Coal?

On 1/26/2024, Biden administration announced that it’s pausing approvals of liquefied natural gas export projects to revise how the government considers the impacts — including the climate change impacts — of those projects. The election-year move to pause the approvals is widely viewed as a concession to climate activists. The move comes as the Biden administration attempts to shore up the support of young voters who could determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Joe Biden and his top climate adviser, Ali Zaidi, both welcomed the pressure from young climate activists Friday as they discussed the pause on LNG export projects.

“Can you share the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that this rule would cut in the short-term? Can you detail that in any specific way for people to understand?” Monica Alba of NBC News asked Zaidi. “I think that’s part of what this review is all about. It’s to understand what are the implications of LNG. We’ve started to learn more about leakage rates at different parts of the supply chain, …” “So, this will take all of those factors in, and hopefully produce an answer that helps us answer this really important question,” he concluded.

Zaidi’s indirect concession that the administration is unsure the policy will reduce emissions stands in contrast with Biden’s official announcement, in which he suggested that the pause on approvals is a decisive step to counter climate change.

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Q: Pause On LNG For Election Votes? Why Not Pause On Day 1? Switch To Dirty Coal?

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• So today the Biden-Harris administration announced a temporary pause on pending decisions on exports of liquefied natural gas to certain countries until the Department of Education can update the underlying assessments
• Why is this pause coming now and not on day one
• It’s almost three years into the president’s term and since he took office the administration has approved thousands of oil and gas projects
• So why didn’t you take this pause on day one to do all the critical analysis you just talked about
• The Department of Energy, this analysis that the agency is undertaking, it’s the economic analysis, the environmental analysis, is at this point in most cases about five years old
• There have been several reviews in the past
• So why this time is there a pause on these pending sales
• Some of your critics are saying it’s because of politics trying to please environmental activists ahead of the election
• I think we’ve got to be clear-eyed about the challenges that we face
• The climate crisis is that, an existential crisis, and we’ve got to be I think really forward-leaning into

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