The Biden administration has appealed a court decision that blocked its freeze on new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals.

In an Aug. 5 filing at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Department of Energy (DOE) lodged its appeal against a July 1 order by a federal court in Louisiana that halted the government’s temporary moratorium on new licenses to export LNG to certain countries.

The appeal represents the latest salvo in an ongoing legal battle that began in January when the White House ordered the DOE to stop approving new licenses to export LNG to countries that are not free trade partners with the United States, in the name of fighting climate change.

“In every corner of the country and the world, people are suffering the devastating toll of climate change,” President Joe Biden said in a statement on Jan. 26. “This pause on new LNG approvals sees the climate crisis for what it is: the existential threat of our time.”

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