Biden Climate Adviser Struggles to Explain How Pausing LNG Exports Doesn’t Give a Big Win to Russia

Reporter: “What assurances on the U.S. LNG can you give allies? And second, can you just also just respond to the criticism we’ve heard today, particularly from the industry, that essentially the administration has handed a win to Russia?”
ZAIDI: “Look, we have, I think, beat expectations in terms of our, the speed and alacrity with which we’ve moved to be a forceful ally to folks facing down energy challenges, especially our partners in Europe. Just to rewind in the right after the invasion, the Russian invasion, the U.S and the E.U. got together, we launched a task force to focus on energy security. And what that looked at was short-term needs, medium term and long-term.”