LNG-by-Rail Officially on Hold with PHMSA, Agency Will “Study” It

When a government agency says it will "study" something, that means you can kiss it goodbye. It's lights out. Our country has a serious problem: insufficient pipelines to get natural gas where it needs to go. In June 2020, during the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), published final rules to allow LNG to be safely transported by special rail cars (see PHMSA and Fed Railroad Admin Publish Final LNG by Rail Regs). Irrational fossil fuel haters got ahold of the cognitively challenged Joe Biden, and Biden put a “freeze” on LNG-by-rail during his first two days in office (see What Biden’s First Two Days on the Job Mean for the O&G Industry). Now, the Bidenistas at the DOT are moving to permanently (under Biden anyway) block LNG-by-rail by saying they "need to do more safety investigative work." Kiss it goodbye.

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