President Trump reverses pause on LNG export permits

On Jan. 26, 2024, then-President Joe Biden announced via executive order a temporary pause on the approvals of new U.S. LNG export projects to examine the environmental, economic, and climate impacts of the businesses.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump via executive order reversed Biden’s pause on new LNG export project permits.

This is an issue the Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance has followed closely because it’s an issue that Pennsylvanians care about so deeply.

A statewide poll found 58 percent of Pennsylvania voters opposed the moratorium after learning more about it. Notably, 57 percent of poll respondents were Democrat and Independent voters.

Pennsylvania is the second-largest natural gas-producing state, and suspending new LNG exports would threaten thousands of good-paying local jobs, according to 84 percent of voters surveyed.

An LNG export terminal in Philadelphia, for example, would create thousands of good-paying union jobs, reassert Pennsylvania’s leadership on the world stage, and increase the global supply of clean-burning, affordable, abundant, reliable energy, according to the final report of the bipartisan Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force. Pennsylvania has long been a leader in energy production, and our resource promise to bring huge benefits to Americans at home and our allies overseas.