LNG Proponents Step Up Lobbying Efforts

Susan Phillips

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

November 1, 2012 | 12:30 PM

The Department of Energy is expected to release a report on the impacts of natural gas exports after the election. The DOE has approved just one LNG export terminal license, while 15 applications are pending. Only a few years earlier, talk centered on building import terminals. But shale gas development and the plunging price of natural gas has shifted the focus to exports. Exporting LNG is controversial, some say exports would not benefit American consumers because it would increase the price of gas. Bill Cooper, the president of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, tells E&E TV that’s a misconception. Listen here.
The chemical industry is worried about exports, Dow Chemical’s CEO says U.S. LNG exports should be limited to 10 percent of overall production.