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Issues
Representative August Pfluger (R-TX) sponsored H.R. 7176, the so-called Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2024, which would abdicate the federal government’s responsibility to examine the full impacts of liquefied methane gas (otherwise known as liquefied natural gas or LNG) expansion on U.S. energy markets, the environment, local communities, and consumers. Specifically, this bill would strip the federal government’s ability and responsibility to properly analyze the impacts of LNG on climate disruption, unstable energy prices, and continued health and safety impacts, particularly for frontline communities. This bill would also undermine the commonsense pause that the Biden-Harris administration put on approvals of new LNG export projects while the Department of Energy (DOE) updates its approach to reviewing such projects. This reevaluation will address longstanding shortcomings in DOE’s outdated and incomplete approach to determining whether LNG export projects are in the public interest, including factoring in impacts on costs to U.S. families and businesses, climate impacts, and environmental justice. On February 15, the House passed H.R. 7176 by a vote of 224-200 (House roll call vote 52). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The Senate took no action on this legislation.
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