Partner Kirstin Gibbs spoke with Law360 about key climate change policies to watch in 2025. She discussed the possible lifting of the Biden administration’s moratorium on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to countries with whom the US has no free-trade agreement.
Kirstin noted that the bigger question for the oil and gas industry is what the US Department of Energy under the new Trump administration will do with an updated LNG export study released last month, which predicted that unconstrained US LNG exports would increase both domestic energy prices and cumulative greenhouse gas emissions.
“They could certainly start immediately to revise it and come up with a different conclusion, issue a supplemental report, and probably try to do that pretty quickly,” Kirstin said.