The White House is promoting support for the confrontational environmental group that harassed administration officials, Dems

After pausing approval of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export hubs, the White House touted the support of a group of hardline environmental activists who have targeted U.S. officials Biden administration and elected Democrats in recent months.

The White House included Climate Defiance's laudatory statement on the administration's decision to halt new and pending LNG export terminal approvals in a 'what are they saying' blog entry published on Saturday. Among others, the group has carried out disruptive protests against the vice president Kamala HarrisSecretary of Transport Pete ButtigiegSecretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and the National Climate Advisor of the White House Ali Zaidias well as Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

“This is monumental. This is absolutely, absolutely, monumental. On this day, January 26, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden took a big step toward banning all new gas exports,” says Climate Defiance X. publication cited by the White House. “This is the most significant move any president has ever made to stop fossil fuels.”

The administration on pause LNG export terminal approvals to expand the scope of its project reviews to include climate impacts along with economic and national security effects on Friday. The move is a potential first step in killing massive export centers like the Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) project in Louisiana, and was met with near-universal praise from the environmental movement.

However, the decision will not reduce emissions and is likely to empower foreign LNG producers such as Russia and Qatar, experts in the energy sector. he said the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday. Climate challenge known with John Podesta, the president's senior adviser for clean energy innovation and implementation, in December 2023 and discussed his desire to see the Biden administration kill CP2.

White House officials also met with one 25-year-old TikTok influencer which uses social media to defend LNG export terminals before announcing the approval pause.

In addition to protests targeting Harris, Buttigieg, Zaidi, Granholm, Klobuchar and Manchin, the group also confronted the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Jerome Powell in October 2023 and it crashed the House office building in July 2023, a stunt that led to nine arrests.

Climate Defiance is one of a number of confrontational eco-activism groups to receive funding Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), a nonprofit organization that receives tax-deductible donations from many wealthy American liberals, including Hollywood writer Adam McKay, actor of “Succession.” Jeremy Strong and Onward Together, the charitable foundation of failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, seconds in the CEF's 2022 annual report.

Other groups included in the White House's “what they're saying” summary include ACT for Environmental Justice, Climate power and the Movement of the dawn. Also cited is Bill McKibben, a prominent environmental activist who has founded two groups of his own.

Neither Climate Defiance nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment.

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