Nick Pope
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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).
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 Foundation reported 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.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin ‘Intentionally Buried’ Inconvenient Study To Justify Major Energy Crackdown, Sources Say)
NEW + EXCLUSIVE:
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 News Foundation.
The Biden administration… pic.twitter.com/UKYTBtL5Al
— Nick Pope (@realnickpope) March 18, 2025
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee also published a timeline on Wednesday highlighting that its members sought — but were not granted — access to the study in question by the Biden administration, as well as former Assistant Energy Secretary Brad Crabtree’s December 2024 testimony that “a complete study did not exist in 2023.”
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.
That conclusion does not align with former Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s 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.
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.
“The 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,” one DOE source previously told the DCNF. “They 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.”
On Wednesday, other news organizations — including Bloomberg News and Fox News Digital — confirmed the DCNF’s initial reporting on the existence of the buried study.
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Considering that Biden was not in charge
and was not even aware that he signed the LNG EO Mike Johnson was talking about
(Biden actually signed this document, but it was trashed, replaced and autopenned with an EO with a different content)
the question is why Blinken was so hellbent on destroying LNG supply?
Biden has been against ‘energy’ since his first days as a Senator. The first ‘bill’ he voted on was for the Alaska pipeline. He and four others were against it.
Joe ” I don’t want my children to grow up in a racial jungle ” Biden
is neither pro nor contra anything.
He just follows the current big lie / narrative.
He was best friends with KKK Robert Byrd and Eugolized him,
yet he had the sudden desire to disproportionately overload his government with blacks,trannies,gays etc.
No.He did not like these people but it was the part of the trade off.
He was allowed to pretend to be president and in return he had to push diversity propaganda and Obama policies,which were Citibank policies, as they picked Obamas cabinet(which also was Joes cabinet) months BEFORE Obama was even elected(see wikileaks).
Joe was so Anti – Energy that he forced Burisma to take his crackaddict son Hunter on their board of directors and pay him 1mio pA for a no show job.
He is so Anti – Energy that he forced the Ukrainian government to fire its chief persecutor for investigating Burisma (there is a video of him bragging about it at a CFR meeting.
Joe, or as Mexicans use to call him.mr Autopendejo,has any opinion you pay him for.
And he said it himself.
“I went into the room with the big guys to prostitute myself.
Yes – I am a political prostitute ”
Joe Biden
Yes, and it’s hard for many people to figure out that it’s all about staying in power, with the wealth that brings to the successful fraudster.
“in order to push forward their radical environmental agenda”
There is no radical environmental agenda. Just another meme, coupled with bogus “journalism” and fake commenters, to get votes from people who haven’t figured them out yet.
Except, contrary to Biden’s claim, he did not force Ukraine to fire Shokin.
While pressure of the 1B load guaranty was applied, Shokin submitted his resignation months later,.Rada initially rejected the resignation. It was submitted a second time and in March (not December), Rada accepted it.
Whenever you hear or read “Biden” or Biden administration,” you should substitute, ” The apparatchiks running the government.”
Biden is complicit in everything imaginable … including this and factoring up the White House “cost of carbon” figures. Biden cannot say that he was just carrying out his duty as President / Chief Executive Every Exec Order and every policy that was signed or allowed under Biden administration should be nullified immediately and erased from the books. History will show Biden is the most incompetent President in history worse than James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore. Biden finished next to last in his college class ranking.
We can not say with certainty that all or even most of those decisions were Biden’s. There is growing suspicion that certain staff members may have created those EOs and signed Biden’s name without his knowledge or consent and he only found out about them when reading a teleprompter.
No proof. Highly suspicions, especially given 2 flavors of the auto pen were used.
Are you saying that someone falsified a document after Joe Biden signed it. That is very serious.
Nothing serious in a country where wars after wars based on lies and with millions of dead people
never lead to any consequences.
And it is not me saying that.
It is Joe who said that he signed a completely different paper.
Btw – my crazy claim can easily be verified.
If It’s autopen it is falsified as Joe says he signed it himself.
Does it matter?
No.
Biden took 300 excutive actions only on immigration in his first years.
94 EO’s in his first 3 months and many other things.
That’s impossible for a demented guy who was on permanent vacation.
He had no clue about most of his signings.
And someone else has run the country and signed them,
otherwise the destruction would have never been so effective.
Kamala – She can’t run a country.She can only run after a bottle of booze.
Either Sullivan or Blinken.
And Biden was way closeer to Blinken.
There are other candidates.
Clinton, Rice, Obama… a very long list of candidates.
There ought to be a law against this if there isn’t already. Build transparency into a law if there isn’t already.
If any misconduct is found during while preparing of a new regulation automatically disqualifies that regulation, and the agency has to start over, from scratch.
Granholm and the rest of the Biden crew were zealots, and zealots rarely have even a nodding acquaintance with either truth or reality.
A Joseph Goebbels quote comes to mind…
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” – Joseph Goebbels
The Truth today is the greatest enemy of the Democrats.
The Democrats can’t stand the truth. It makes them look bad. That’s because they are bad.
Democrats can’t stand the truth.
Just look at all the BS claims being made about DOGE.
Ref. A few Good Men.
I think the best word that describes them is traitors.
Actually, they are 100% loyal and fullfil all their promises – to the lobbyists.
They pay way better than the government.
Yes, I consider them traitors, putting their own self interests ahead of the United States. They are not looking out for the United States, that’s for sure.
Now, Republicans are in a position to be able to investigate all this. And the investigations are in progress.
Republicans have been part of the crime all along. Counting on co-conspirators to right the wrongs (or Right the Left) is almost as much fantasy as running society on sunbeams and breezes. Seldom have I been as hopeful that I am wrong.
“Republicans have been part of the crime all along.”
Got any evidence for that? I didn’t think so.
It’s not an absolute binary yes or no.
It is a matter of degree and severity.
Both branches of the Party have been complicit in hiding truth from the People for decades. Even when Republicans have had control of both Houses of Congress and the Executive the depredations have continued. If that were not true it could not have gone this far. The evidence is vast.
If we had an honest, objective, fact seeking media, then the corruption would not be nearly so severe. Complicit media added to the mess.
Indeed, the media have long been complicit in what is known as the Deep State. The Council on Foreign Relations even thanked them for their cooperation in covering for them for decades.
Treason is very narrowly defined, and rightly so. Malfeasance, bribery, misprision of a felony, and perhaps even espionage would do if any hope for real accountability existed. However, when you print the money, make the rules, and are trusted to interpret them, there is little hope of that, barring the direct action that severed us from Britain, who were doing the same things.
The attempt to reduce the apparatus itself is another answer, but that will be resisted by the infection to the bitter end.
Espionage is generally considered treason, particularly when at war.
Espionage includes incidents of carelessness and need not include intent. Treason is the intentional waging of war against the States, adhering to their enemies giving them aid and comfort.
According to my workplace training, espionage includes intent.
Carelessness is indeed a security breach but generally not within the definition of espionage.
I stand corrected. I meant it need not include intent to deliver material or information to an enemy. When Hillary used an outside server it was a violation of the Espionage Act but didn’t constitute treason. Unauthorized copying or reading material is likewise a violation but is not treason.
The numpties keep banging on gas (not nukes) is required to transition out of coal until the fickles can take over with firming but somehow it will only do that domestically not internationally. Yeah riiiiight!
Until total transparency is required of politicians and government employees, the sociopaths infesting the Blob will continue to hide behind the twin “beards” of national security and partisan politics!
The American public has stood by in disgust while crooks in both parties have looted our treasury of tens of trillions of dollars. US tax dollars and foreign aid have been used like an ATM for greedy bureaucrats and pols to pack their wallets, and to turn the whole nation into a one-party system like in Commifornia! That is why they are so intent on stopping DOGE and Musk; without a steady supply of money to finance their schemes, the whole house of cards collapses!
The 2021 Danish one in particular is not a good look on top of the recent flops climate changers-
Two more wind turbines suffer damage in Canada and Norway | RenewEconomy
Pushing the limits of engineering to make each costly install pay particularly with offshore turbines eh? With warranty the wind turbine manufacturers guarantee them til they stop.
If these allegations are proven correct, there should be an investigation of whether the alleged actions caused deaths of any people.
In civilised countries, a person causing a death is subject to a court appearance with accusation such as “murder” or “manslaughter.”
Let us get serious about this path and not listen to hand waving excuses seeking to avoid it. Geoff S
Amen, brother. Amen.
Lying and cheating is not acceptable especially by our political leaders. We must start holding them accountable.
They lie and cheat when they campaign for election and are elected anyway. So why would you expect their behaviour to be different once elected? The voters need to held accountable….oh that’s right they are.
There are two ways of arriving at that general accountability at this point–fiscal collapse or absolute tyranny. These are of course not mutually exclusive
Not sure if this is a “story tip” or not….
but military are getting rid of tons of CO2 emission too..
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HKtb_5aY8vM
Misleading. and lying to congress, isn’t that a felony?
Impeachable at a minimum.
From the article: “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.”
That’s one way to put it, I guess.
That’s more polite than calling the Biden administration blatant liars.
I prefer “blatant liars” myself. I guess Republican congressmen have to maintain some decorum in their official capacity.
The Biden administration was lying about natural gas, so what else are they lying about? No doubt, very many things, but one thing they lied about is that CO2 is dangerous and needs to be regulated.
Congress should look into this lie, too.
Indeed. “…least transparent…” is a gentle euphemism for corrupt and destructive
“intentionally buried a lot of data and released a skewed study to discredit the benefits of American LNG,”
Isn’t that criminal? It should be
Only if we were to do it. For the masters, it is another day at the office.
If true then this was an abrogation of science and must surely be actionable?
ALL employees of government, including politicians, should be obliged by law, to fully disclose ‘all’ of their finances (domestic and foreign) to the public, before, during, and after their period of employment. That, would soon sort out most of the crooks. Penalties for non-disclosure, or lying, should be jail time.
They should also have to reveal the financial activities of their immediate families.
…and agree to forensic audits and financial investigations…
So much (again) for the campaign promise of having the most transparent administration in US history.