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Biden administration warns natural gas expansion would drive up domestic costs | New study shows LNG exports risk raising greenhouse gas emissions, hampering efforts to curtail the climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

People have been talking about it for years, but it's now written up in an official report

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There are many official reports and this is yet another that we don’t act on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

This is one making the case that it's not in the interest of the US to export more gas. It's hopefully going to create a bit of a political barrier to approving more exports in the future.