Kamala Harris is running for president as a “change” candidate despite her status in the incumbent administration. That means if Harris were genuine about her commitment to a flourishing American energy industry, she would lobby to lift the White House moratorium on new liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects.
In January, President Joe Biden followed an illegal 18-month suspension on oil and gas leases on public lands with a freeze on new licenses to export American LNG. A federal judge blocked the ban this summer but, as The Wall Street Journal reports, “the climate lobby is telling the Administration to ignore the court as it did the law.”
“Who cares what a court says? Not the Sierra Club, which says the judge’s ruling doesn’t compel the Administration ‘to issue any specific decisions,’” the Journal’s editorial board reported. “In other words, the Administration can continue to slow-walk reviews, as it has been doing.”
The Biden administration has a history of ignoring court conclusions after all, considering oil and gas sales on public lands did not resume until June 2022, a full year after a judge ruled the moratorium on new leases violated federal law. In August, Biden’s Department of Energy appealed the July decision to halt new licenses for LNG exports. Now The Wall Street Journal editorial board is asking, “Where’s Kamala Harris on LNG Exports?”
“The Administration’s signals are driving investment to U.S. competitors,” the board wrote, shackling the American energy industry exports that would reduce European reliance on Russian
