To some green groups, the Biden administration’s approval of a massive oil project in Alaska, embrace of natural gas exports and slowness to announce plans on offshore drilling fall short of the president’s 2020 promise to wean the nation off fossil fuels
But Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 jostled the administration’s energy rhetoric and view of natural gas, according to industry officials. European allies wanted to ditch their reliance on Russian gas, and the Biden administration helped by promoting an export surge that led to U.S. companies providing half of Europe’s liquefied natural gas last year.
“Those are the big key issues here, and how they navigate the politics on that is very important,” said Jamal Raad, co-founder and senior adviser for the environmental group Evergreen Action.Sheldon WhitehouseObama’s efforts to pass his own climate bill failed during his first term, and his most aggressive climate actions didn’t emerge until late in his second term.
But Obama had something Biden doesn’t have: more time on the Earth’s climate clock. The additional six years of greenhouse gas pollution since Obama left office means that the world is closer to exceeding the amount of global warming that would usher in catastrophic consequences.“Joe Biden is tacking to the right on a number of issues — climate included,” said Lukas Ross, a program manager with environmental group Friends of the Earth. “I can guarantee the climate doesn’t care where U.S.
Mindful of the climate implications, the Biden administration has called gas a diplomatic tool while cautioning that new infrastructure must not squander the nation’s climate goals. It also has pushed regulations, originally initiated under Obama but strengthened by Biden, to limit pollution by heat-trapping methane from oil and gas production.that U.S. gas is clean enough to maintain national climate pledges.
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