Extreme Temperature Diary Tuesday November 25th, 2025/Main Topic: A ‘Radical and Reckless’ LNG House Bill – Guy On Climate
Dear Diary. While we have been concentrating on the goings on and resolutions from COP30, which got a failing D grade in my book, the Republican led House of Representatives has been up to more dirty fossil fuel shenanigans. Evidently a bill passed such that liquified natural gas will be more easily sold and distributed throughout the world. Not only will this legislation aid in spewing more methane into the atmosphere but raise natural gas prices domestically, which will detrimentally affect low- and medium-income households. As I and many other experts keep stating, switch to all electric systems in your house, if possible, not only to help the environment but now to save money.
Here are more details from Common Dreams.
‘Radical and Reckless’: House Passes LNG Bill to Jack Up Climate Pollution and Energy Prices | Common Dreams
 A liquefied natural gas tanker that departed from the Port of Cameron unloads US LNG at the Revithoussa terminal in Greece, on November 7, 2025. (Photo by Nicolas Koutsokostas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)‘Radical and Reckless’: House Passes LNG Bill to Jack Up Climate Pollution and Energy Prices“The explosion of LNG exports in recent years has already generated massive profits for the fossil fuel industry, while consumers and local communities pay the price,” said one climate campaigner. Jessica Corbett
Nov 21, 2025
As government leaders from around the world met in Brazil to discuss solutions to the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency, the GOP-controlled US House of Representatives on Thursday advanced a bill that would lift restrictions on liquefied natural gas.
Eleven Democrats joined all Republicans present in voting for GOP Texas Congressman August Pfluger’s Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act, which would also grant the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission sole authority over applications for import and export facilities. It’s now up to the Senate whether the bill will reach President Donald Trump.
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While Pfluger, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the upper chamber sponsor, celebrated Thursday’s vote, climate campaigners blasted the bill—just one part of a sweeping GOP effort to boost the planet-heating fossil fuel industry during Trump’s second term.
“The explosion of LNG exports in recent years has already generated massive profits for the fossil fuel industry, while consumers and local communities pay the price,” Sierra Club director of beyond fossil fuels policy Mahyar Sorour said in a statement after the vote. “The last thing we need is even less oversight over these costly, polluting export projects.”
“Hou se Republicans should be focused on making investments in a clean economy and reducing energy costs for our families, not further padding the pockets of Big Oil and Gas executives,” Sorour added. “The Senate should reject this dirty bill.”
Energy prices are going up everywhere and Republicans just made it worse ⬇️ — Energy and Commerce Democrats (@energycommerce.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T23:03:09.838Z
Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, highlighted that “President Trump explicitly promised during the campaign that he would lower Americans’ utility bills by half within 12 months. Not only has Trump obviously failed on that promise, but this legislation would exacerbate the energy affordability crisis.”
Slocum pointed to his group’s estimates that “natural gas prices for American households have increased by $10.3 billion from January through August 2025 compared to the same time period a year earlier—a 20% increase.”
“Eight LNG export terminals now consume more natural gas than all American households combined,” he continued. “The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration’s November 2025 Short Term Energy Outlook concludes that Americans face sharply higher natural gas prices ‘primarily due to increased liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.’”
“This radical and reckless deregulatory proposal eliminates the requirement that gas exports comply with the public interest, allowing fossil fuel companies to enjoy unregulated exports at the expense of affordable energy here at home,” Slocum stressed. “The move by Congress to allow bypassing these safeguards could have catastrophic impacts on the consumers in the US, sending energy prices soaring, while allowing climate change to get far worse.”
“Despite Trump promising he would cut Americans’ energy bills, Congress is set to put consumers at risk of paying more, raising major questions about Trump’s close allegiance with dirty energy executives who want to ship more fuel overseas,” he added. “Creating more capacity to export US fossil fuels abroad will only accelerate the climate crisis and hurt US consumers.”
Americans are already being crushed by the skyrocketing cost of living, and now the House GOP is passing legislation that will drive up monthly power bills even further by sending UNLIMITED amounts of our natural gas abroad. — Rep. Frank Pallone (@pallone.house.gov) 2025-11-20T21:26:15.792Z
The vote happened on the same day that Doug Burgum, the billionaire fossil fuel industry ally whom Trump appointed to lead the US Department of the Interior, ordered the termination of the Biden administration’s 2024-29 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program and the development of a “new, more expansive” plan “as soon as possible.”
Responding to the order in a statement, Sierra Club executive director Loren Blackford said that “ Donald Trump and Doug Burgum are once again trying to sell out our coastal communities and our public waters in favor of corporate polluters’ bottom line.”
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