New Fortress Energy announced today that it had received approval from the Department of Energy for a new liquified natural gas (LNG) export operation to non-free trade countries, in spite of an ongoing public interest review of such exports by the Biden administration.

In response, Food & Water Watch Managing Director of Policy and Litigation Mitch Jones issued the following statement:

“It’s ridiculous that the Department of Energy would issue this license despite the administration’s ongoing, incomplete public interest review of such exports. The department is under no obligation to approve these ill-advised proposals, now or ever. As the disastrous impacts of increased fossil fuel development become more and more obvious here and around the globe, the notion of expanded LNG exports should be dismissed out of hand.”