Manchin promises to investigate Biden natural gas export freeze

Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), one of the Biden administration’s most vocal intra-party critics on energy issues, vowed an investigation into the newly-announced pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals. In a statement Friday morning, the West Virginia Democrat implied the decision to implement the pause was based on political considerations rather than “indisputable facts,” citing LNG production’s economic benefits and the role of American exports in isolating the Russian energy sector after the country’s invasion of Ukraine. ”I have always said that our first concern must...