On May 19, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) finalized its 2024 LNG Export Study: Energy, Economic and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports (the 2024 Study) through the release of a Response to Comments on the 2024...more
On December 17, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a long-awaited study that is intended to inform its findings as to whether exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are in the “public interest” under section 3...more
12/23/2024
/ China ,
Clean Energy ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
EU ,
Exports ,
Free Trade Agreements ,
Investment ,
Liquid Natural Gas ,
Natural Gas Act ,
Public Interest ,
Trump Administration
On January 26, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that it would place a temporary “pause” on pending decisions to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries with which the United States has not entered into...more
2/2/2024
/ Bilateral Investment Treaties ,
Climate Change ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Energy Policy Act ,
Energy Projects ,
Environmental Impact Statements ,
Exports ,
FERC ,
Free Trade Agreements ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Liquid Natural Gas ,
NAFTA ,
NEPA ,
Public Interest ,
Shareholders ,
WTO
Last month over 35,000 participants attended the Gastech 2019 Conference, the world’s largest gas and LNG conference, in Houston, Texas. Members of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s global energy and transactions team...more
10/2/2019
/ Climate Change ,
Economic Growth ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Storage ,
Environmental Assessments ,
Exports ,
FERC ,
Imports ,
Liquid Natural Gas ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
Supply Chain ,
Transportation Industry