This past Monday, a federal judge in Louisiana did something that went relatively unheralded with all the post-debate brouhaha about our vegetable-in-chief and, to a lesser extent, the SCOTUS immunity ruling which also dropped the same morning.
Judge James Cain of the Western District of Lousiana put the Biden administration’s pause on new permits for liquid natural gas (LNG) exports on hold.
A federal judge in Louisiana on Monday put the Energy Department’s pause on natural gas export permits on hold, dealing another legal blow to the Biden administration’s climate agenda.
Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana, a Trump appointee, granted a request for a stay from 16 red states that had challenged the pause, arguing it will harm their economies.
The decision to stay the LNG pause upends one of Joe Biden’s major policy nods to climate-focused activists who have…
