U.S. Federal judge strikes down ban on new natural gas exports [Video]

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) – U.S. Federal Judge James Cain Jr. of the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction in Louisiana’s favor for the State’s lawsuit against President Joe Biden and the United States Department of Energy.

The injunction is over the unlawful decisions to ban new liquefied natural gas exports to non-free trade agreement countries. Judge Cain’s order lifts the LNG export ban effective immediately.

Judge Cain said in his ruling, “It appears that the DOE’s decision to halt the permit approval process for entities to export LNG to non-FTA countries is completely without reason or logic and is perhaps the epiphany of ideocracy.”

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Judge Cain also asked attorneys for the federal government, “So why the change of the past normal practice? And why now?”

Shortly after that announcement, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrillled a coalition of 16 states in filing the lawsuit …