On January 26, President Joe Biden paused all approvals of new U.S. LNG export plans following increased protests from climate activists after the country became the world's top exporter of the commodity this past year. This pause will be used to conduct a review that will "look at the economic and environmental impacts of projects seeking approval to export LNG to Europe and Asia," according to reporting by Reuters. Even in the first year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which kicked off the scramble for other sources of natural gas, many European economies turned to the United States for their gas supply. France, ... (full story)