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If you have followed the LNG “pause” scandal outed by GAO Freedom of Information Act litigation, chronicled here, you know that the Biden-Harris DoE conducted a 2023 LNG export study then buried it, then effectively lied about this with a January 2024 announcement that LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries were being paused in order to…conduct such a study. More specifically,…

GAO has filed suit against the Biden-Harris DoE for the documents DoE identified as meeting the description of the 2023 LNG export study that, we are reliably informed, was performed, buried, then effectively lied about with the 2024 “pause-to-study” announcement. Which docs DoE then said, on second thought, weren’t “final reports” or “ready for release for the public’s view”, and…

Following up on this post, yesterday the House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee held a hearing into the Biden-Harris Department of Energy politicizing U.S.  energy security and national security by “pausing” permitting for certain new exports of liquified natural gas. The subcommittee pressed for answers to the questions raised by GAO’s work and specifically referred on multiple occasions to DoE’s stonewalling…

Per a press release issued at the end of last week, tomorrow (Wednesday, December 4, 2024) at 4 pm: Interestingly, given how GAO has affirmed the political nature of this clearly major decision (reflected in the hearing’s title) with such far-reaching impacts, the Subcommittee will inquire into the role of John Podesta, now serving in the State Department role of…

GAO filed a Notice of Supplemental Authority about this reporting by Bloomberg into the administration’s hurried effort to seal its (previously) stealth effort to stitch-up, before the January inauguration, a policy restricting exports of liquified natural gas (LNG) to non-FTA countries, grounded in a false pretext. From the filing:

Brief filed slamming DoE stunt suddenly deciding there are no LNG pause studies after all In the latest development involving the LNG “pause” scandal outed by GAO litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, GAO has filed its Reply to the Biden-Harris Department of Energy’s Opposition to GAO’s Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings, and Memo in support thereof. With…

Today’s lead Wall Street Journal lead editorial, titled “The Harris Disguise, Energy Edition,” airs the LNG “pause” scandal outed by GAO litigation under the Freedom of Information Act. From the piece: Recall that in January the Energy Department imposed a moratorium on LNG permitting after a TikTok campaign made the issue a cri de coeur. Energy claimed the pause was…

The Washington Free Beacon reports on a letter submitted by the House Committee on Oversight & Accountability seeking answers to questions raised by GAO’s Freedom of Information Act litigation most recently noted here. Excerpting the story: In court filings cited by the Oversight Committee leaders and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, the Department of Energy acknowledged in September that…

A ‘tell’ giving “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” a run for its money The biggest scandal waiting to happen in policy—first revealed here, reported on by the Daily Caller here and updated by GAO here—is the Biden-Harris Department of Energy freezing exports of liquified natural gas exports purportedly because it needed to conduct a…

Longtime GAO readers may remember Energy Policy Advocates’s Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) suit against the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General (OAG), seeking records pertaining to that Office throwing its lot in with the Michael Bloomberg-financed scheme placing activists in AG offices to advance Bloomberg’s “climate” priorities. At long last, the dreadful and dismissive move by the…