U.S. Federal judge strikes down ban on new natural gas exports

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) – U.S. Federal Judge James Cain Jr. of the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction in Louisiana's favor for the State's lawsuit against President Joe Biden and the United States Department of Energy.

The injunction is over the unlawful decisions to ban new liquefied natural gas exports to non-free trade agreement countries. Judge Cain's order lifts the LNG export ban effective immediately. 

Judge Cain said in his ruling, "It appears...