Our man Horner is at it again.
Daily Caller (10/2/24) reports: "The Biden-Harris administration may have based its decision to freeze certain liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects upon a major act of deception, according to a government watchdog group. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced the pause on new and pending approvals for certain LNG export terminals in January, stating that it must conduct a review of potential environmental, economic and security impacts of LNG exports to ensure that approving new capacity is still in the public interest. An ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) legal battle between the agency and an independent group called Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO) reveals that the administration may have actually conducted — or started to conduct — such a review in 2023 before effectively burying it because it may have been producing politically inconvenient conclusions, according to GAO. If GAO is correct, the Biden-Harris administration essentially deceived the public in an election year to institute a policy that undermines American geopolitical interests, chills investment in domestic energy projects and greatly pleases the well-funded environmentalist lobby which is spending big to help Democrats in this election cycle...Moreover, the federal government has delayed the process by 'asking for timeline extensions, ignoring deadlines, filing motions to stay adjudication and seeking to further delay by consolidating several individual GAO FOIA actions into one complex case,' Chris Horner, one of GAO’s attorneys, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. 'GAO has already won in the key sense that it forced a stonewalling DOE to at long last admit that, yes, there is a 2023 study meeting that description, it was sent to the senior political appointees in the Biden-Harris DOE, and has disappeared into the ether,' Horner told the DCNF."
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"Despite its crucial importance to our economy, the Biden-Harris Administration has taken a 'whole-of-government' approach to regulate traditional and reliable domestic energy sources out of existence. According to the Institute for Energy Research, this administration has rolled out over 250 executive actions that harm the U.S. energy industry."
– Alex Epstein,
Energy Talking Points
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