"Nothing in the Natural Gas Act authorizes the Department of Energy to halt all LNG export applications. For that reason, as recently as July of 2023, the Department of Energy denied a petition calling for a halt to the approval of all new LNG export licenses. In its rejection, the department stated that it had 'no factual or legal basis' for 'halt[ing] approval of pending applications to export LNG,'" they reported.
Then Biden, in January, simply declared a ban, "effective immediately and indefinitely."
The lawsuit charges that the ban violates federal law as well as the Constitution's separation of powers and exceeds Biden's authority.
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