House Oversight Committee Sinks Into Key Study ‘Intentionally Buried’ By Biden Administration

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is in possession of a key study on natural gas as of Wednesday that the Biden administration withheld in order to move forward with its 2024 crackdown on liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The Biden Department of Energy (DOE) “intentionally buried” a final draft version of a study assessing impacts of LNG export growth in 2023 over worries that it would not support the rationale for the Biden administration’s January 2024 decision to unilaterally freeze LNG export approvals, the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundationreported Tuesday. Prior to Wednesday’s announcement, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee had previously demanded that the Biden DOE provide the buried 2023 study — only alleged to exist until this week — for review, but Biden administration officials indicated that there was not a complete LNG study in 2023.

“Biden Administration officials, who religiously claimed to ‘follow the science,’ abandoned it to undermine American-made energy production, appease climate activists, and achieve their predetermined outcomes. As Secretary Granholm sought to weaken America’s LNG industry, the Biden Department of Energy withheld key data from both the American people and Congress in order to push forward their radical environmental agenda,” Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, the committee’s chairman, said in a statement. “President Biden and his administration will go down as the least transparent in history. I am grateful to President Trump and Secretary Wright for providing the transparency the American people deserve and for taking action to restore America’s energy dominance.”