DOE revealed this in a statement on Monday, releasing its response to comments on the 2024 LNG export study.
“With this action, DOE has completed the final hurdles left over from the Biden administration’s reckless pause on LNG export permits, paving the way for the Trump Administration to fully unleash American LNG exports,” DOE said.
In January 2024, the Biden administration paused pending decisions on exports of LNG to non-FTA countries until DOE can update the underlying analyses for authorizations.
DOE released its study on the economic and climate impacts of exporting increasing volumes of LNG from the US in December last year.
The study had a public comment period through March 20th of this year.
In January 2025, US President Donald Trump lifted a moratorium by the former Biden administration on non-FTA LNG export permits.
In the meantime, DOE issued conditional long-term authorizations for LNG exports to non-free trade agreement nations, including to Venture Global LNG’s CP2 project and Commonwealth LNG.
On Monday, DOE said it made several key findings, based on the record evidence from the 2024 LNG export study and the public comments received.
These include that the US has a “robust natural gas supply that is sufficient to meet growing levels of exports while minimizing impacts to domestic prices.”
DOE also said that “growing LNG exports increases our gross domestic product and expands jobs while improving our trade balance”, and that increasing US LNG exports “enhances domestic and international global security with no discernable impact to global greenhouse gas emissions.”
“In sum, DOE concludes that the complete record from the 2024 LNG export study, inclusive of the study, the comments received, and this response to comments, supports the proposition that exports of LNG from the United States are in the best interest of the American public,” it said.
With the public comments to the 2024 LNG export study now addressed, DOE will proceed with issuing final orders on pending applications to export US-sourced natural gas as LNG to non-free trade agreement countries, DOE added.
