The Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito said Monday that the Biden administration should not be looking to TikTok for advice on what to do regarding the environment, including its decision to pause liquefied natural gas exports.
President Joe Biden has received pushback over his recent decision to pause exporting LNG, with some reporters stating the decision stemmed from a push among younger United States residents on TikTok. Zito referenced a statement by Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) that those who get their political news from TikTok “probably should rethink” how it gets information from voters.
“And I think that may be true for the Biden administration, where they’re relying on TikTok videos and pressure from young people,” Zito said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “I know they understand that they’re losing the youth vote. However, this decision to pause LNGs, the safest that we have available at this time to transport energy, goes against his own climate change agenda in that it makes the climate worse.”
Zito also noted that concerns among Democrats who are criticizing this LNG pause stem from how it would affect jobs within their states, specifically Ohio and Pennsylvania. Regarding the latter state, Zito said there are 72,000 direct jobs in the LNG industry. The pause could also affect the international supply of LNG, including Japan’s reliance on the U.S. for LNG.
In the wake of the Biden administration’s pause on LNG, Fetterman and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) issued a statement expressing their concern. The two Pennsylvania senators described their state as “the second largest natural gas-producing state” in the U.S. and said the industry in the state has played “a critical role” in promoting U.S. energy independence.
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“If this decision puts Pennsylvania energy jobs at risk, we will push the Biden administration to reverse this decision,” the statement read.
Beyond Fetterman and Casey, 10 House Democrats have also asked the president, via a letter, to “refocus” his policy on U.S. LNG exports.
