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GAO filed eight FOIA lawsuits against DoE  in the second half of 2024 for a buried LNG study—work that had already in fact been performed in 2023 but with an unwanted answer, prompting the Department to falsely announce in January 2024 that it would “begin,” and “initiate” such work, as a pretext for a green-group-demanded ‘pause’ on further exports. These…

GAO has uncovered certain facts which the Trump administration absolutely must consider and exploit as it pursues its announced regulatory corrections. This information sheds light on the previous administration’s process for adopting an unlawful “suite of regulations” imposing the “climate” agenda without any statutory authorization. Turns out, that plan was more unlawful than even we knew. In fact, this information…

It has been a busy time on the taxpayer-funded, green-group grant front. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency filed an appeal in the D.C. Circuit of a district court order that it unfreeze some of the billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to activists, financing the industry that was engaged with the Biden administration to advance an aligned agenda. This is very…

Today’s update follows up on this and all prior posts about the Biden Department of Energy’s scandal over “pausing” liquified natural gas exports to non-FTA countries, at the behest of its environmentalist pressure group base—the lies involved in which are becoming increasingly outrageous as time passes. GAO has obtained this production of eleven records totaling 38 pages (including duplicates, essentially…

In GAO v DoE, the FOIA lawsuit which exposed the LNG “Scandal-pause,” Government Accountability & Oversight points out for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that the Biden Department of Energy couldn’t keep its stories straight. From the introduction to GAO’s Memorandum in Opposition: Other documents filed yesterday are also available; do not be daunted by the…

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: