Inside Trade

September 10, 2024

DOE official: LNG export approval reevaluation will take months, not years

By Oliver Ward  / February 8, 2024 at 5:33 PM
The Biden administration plans to reassess its approach to approving new liquefied natural gas export projects “as quickly as possible” and expects the process to take “months, not years,” a top Energy Department official said on Thursday. “We’re going to do it as quickly as we possibly can, months not years,” Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk testified during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing . “But I can't set a particular timeline on it. I don't think that...

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