16 Republican-Led States Challenge Biden’s Pause on LNG Export Approvals

Texas and 15 other Republican-led states filed a lawsuit on Thursday to challenge the Biden administration’s pause on approving applications to export liquified natural gas (LNG). The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana by 16 state attorneys general, claims that the administration’s LNG export ban is “not justified by any statutory authority.” “This ban disregards statutory mandates, flouts the normal regulatory process, upends the industry, disrupts Plaintiffs’ economies, and subverts our constitutional structure,” the suit reads. “These unlawful actions leave Plaintiffs with no choice but to once more turn to the courts to enforce the law,” it added....