Posted on 03/30/2025 6:17:36 AM PDT by Libloather
FIRST ON FOX – The Biden administration buried for more than a year a final draft report that failed to prove that an increase in U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals was linked to a meaningful impact on greenhouse gas emissions, according to a copy of the findings, exclusively previewed to Fox News Digital.
The Biden administration stalled the release of the information, senior Trump administration officials told Fox News Digital, delaying sharing the data with House Oversight Committee Republicans. The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported that the Biden administration "intentionally buried" the study.
The impact that new U.S. LNG exports had on the environment and the economy had been reviewed by U.S. Energy Department scientists and federal contractors, who by September 2023 had completed their work and had a draft final report ready for publication.
Fox News independently reviewed a copy of that draft study, titled, "Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports." That report and its findings were slated for publication in 2023 — months before then-President Joe Biden, who was still seeking re-election at the time, announced a pause on all new U.S. LNG export terminals in January 2024, citing the need to better consider environmental and economic impacts.
The draft report found that across all modeled scenarios, an increase in U.S. LNG exports and natural gas production did not change global or U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, nor did it correlate with a strong uptick in energy prices for consumers, Trump administration officials said.
"Secretary Granholm, and Biden White House told Americans that the increase in LNG exports would disproportionately increase prices for American consumers as well as from the environment," an official said.
"And both these claims were refuted in the report that the Biden administration hid from Congress and..."
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All the crappy results of the Biden Presidency were the result of Demoncrats stealing the 2020 election.
“Climate change.”
An invented hoax created to take away the freedoms of Americans and enrich the democrat party.
The entire man made climate change game is done. The studies and papers indicating that it is a lie have been suppressed for years. It’s all beginning to come to light.
Soon Boden will be buried. His wife so deeply loves him she should be thrown in with him.
Nothing!...The US does affects "climate change".
Now China and India...that's a different story.
Climate = Weather ,LOL
bttt
The worlds of oil and gas are worlds of numbers and units.
US LNG exports . . . 8.5 million metric tons. When re-gassified at an import terminal the conversion is 1 metric ton = 584 cubic meters of natgas (the world of gas uses cubic meters, and the US cubic foot preference can be converted, though because this is exported, cubic meters aligns with recipients).
So export of LNG is 8.5 million metric tons X 584 =
about 5 billion cubic meters.
Sounds like a big number. Some reporters would add an exclamation point.
Some other numbers — The US consumes about 1.1 Trillion (with a T) cubic meters of natgas per year. The largest US LNG recipient non re-exporting is Japan, who get 10.3 billion (with a B) cubic meters of natgas in that form from the US.
Japan’s annual natgas consumption 93 Billion cubic meters.
The I word. Insignificant. Japan is the highest and it’s fueling only 10% from the US. (Also it is in decline as they re-embrace nuclear post Fukishima).
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