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Restarting US LNG Permitting Brings Geopolitical Benefits and the Potential for Climate Progress
One of the first actions of the new Trump administration was ending a year-long moratorium on permitting new export terminals for U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG). The so-called “pause” on LNG approvals, imposed in the final year of the Biden …