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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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden Department of Energy (DOE) \u201cintentionally buried\u201d 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\u2019s January 2024 decision to unilaterally freeze LNG export approvals, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported<\/a> Tuesday. Prior to Wednesday\u2019s announcement<\/a>, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee had previously demanded that the Biden DOE provide the buried 2023 study \u2014 only alleged to exist<\/a> until this week \u2014 for review, but Biden administration officials indicated that there was not a complete LNG study in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBiden Administration officials, who religiously claimed to \u2018follow the science,\u2019 abandoned it to undermine American-made energy production, appease climate activists, and achieve their predetermined outcomes. As Secretary Granholm sought to weaken America\u2019s 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,\u201d Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, the committee\u2019s chairman, said in a statement. \u201cPresident 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\u2019s energy dominance.\u201d (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin \u2018Intentionally Buried\u2019 Inconvenient Study To Justify Major Energy Crackdown, Sources Say)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Biden White House and Energy Department buried a study that would have impeded its ability to impose the liquefied natural gas export approvals pause in January 2024, four agency sources told the @DailyCaller<\/a> News Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The House Oversight and Accountability Committee also published a timeline on Wednesday highlighting that its members sought \u2014 but were not granted \u2014 access to the study in question by the Biden administration, as well as former Assistant Energy Secretary Brad Crabtree\u2019s December 2024 testimony that \u201ca complete study did not exist in 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden DOE effectively completed a final draft version of the LNG impacts study around the end of September 2023, and that iteration was ready to be shown to top Biden officials, Trump DOE sources previously told the DCNF. That version of the study concluded that increasing U.S. LNG exports would actually decrease global emissions relative to other scenarios, Trump DOE sources previously told the DCNF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That conclusion does not align with former Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm\u2019s take of the final version of the study disseminated to the public in December 2024, as she argued that any growth in LNG exports would lead to higher global greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of September 2023, a Biden administration official commented on the final draft version to tell others to stop working on it until further notice, even though other language in the document said that the final version would be published sometime around the end of September 2023, Trump DOE sources previously told the DCNF. That version of the study was never released publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Energy Department has learned that former Secretary Granholm and the Biden White House intentionally buried a lot of data and released a skewed study to discredit the benefits of American LNG,\u201d one DOE source previously told the DCNF. \u201cThey were prioritizing their own political ambitions over the interests of the American people, and the administration intentionally deceived the American public to advance an agenda that harmed American energy security, the environment and American lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, other news organizations \u2014 including Bloomberg News<\/a> and Fox News Digital<\/a> \u2014 confirmed the DCNF\u2019s initial reporting on the existence of the buried study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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