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'Full-Blown Scandal': Biden-Harris Admin Hid Documents To Justify Fossil Fuel Crackdown, Oversight Committee Says
Oversight Committee GOP accelerates probe into Biden-Harris admin's fossil fuel moratorium
'Full-Blown Scandal': Biden-Harris Admin Hid Documents To Justify Fossil Fuel Crackdown, Oversight Committee Says
The Biden-Harris administration is allegedly covering up an internal study conducted in 2023 that would have rendered its moratorium on natural gas projects unnecessary, according to leaders on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
freebeacon.com
The Biden-Harris administration is allegedly covering up an internal study conducted in 2023 that would have rendered its moratorium on natural gas projects unnecessary, according to leaders on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
The White House and the Department of Energy paused permitting for liquefied natural gas export projects in January—a policy critics said would cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs—to allow time for a federal study on those projects' environmental, economic, and national security impacts. That study, according to federal officials, wouldn't be completed until early 2025, effectively throwing the brakes on dozens of major fossil fuel projects.
According to a letter that Republican leaders on the House Oversight Committee sent to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday, however, there is evidence the Department of Energy already conducted such a study months before announcing the policy. And, the lawmakers added, the agency has sought to stonewall information requests to obtain that study.
In court filings cited by the Oversight Committee leaders and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, the Department of Energy acknowledged in September that it completed the information request, which yielded 97 responsive documents totaling 4,354 pages.
The Department of Energy, though, never shared those documents. On Friday, it sent its final response to the request to Government Accountability and Oversight, saying it understood the group's request to be seeking only any "final" natural gas export study and that it did not find a "final" study in its search. The group's information request never specified that it only sought "final" studies rather than potential draft studies.
"The clear implication is that one or more draft studies do exist, and DOE is attempting to cover that up," Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R., Ky.), Oversight energy subcommittee chairman Pat Fallon (R., Texas), and Rep. Clay Higgins (R., La.) wrote to Granholm on Wednesday.
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The Department of Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The administration's moratorium on natural gas exports, meanwhile, has faced stiff opposition from Republicans, Democrats, national security officials, and industry groups. One study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute concluded natural gas exports could add $73 billion to the economy by 2040 and create 453,000 jobs.
Commentary:
Of course the Complicit Qusiling Media won't touch the story. They are too busy chasing the story of a woman's accusation that 31 years ago, Trump touched her.
Whay are the Biden/Harris administration covering up an internal study conducted in 2023 that would have rendered his moratorium on natural gas projects unnecessary?
I'm at least that old that I remember when we had LPG tractors, fork lifts and buses, thinking it was a good deal. Back then, they practically gave propane away.
Why I even heated ny home with propane and I had an LPG pickup, flexl fuel actually. When you ran out of one fuel you turned on the other one.
The beautiful thing about burning propane is it's clean, less dust, less odor, the oil looked just as clean when you drained it to change it as it did when you poured it out of the can.
