A U.S court has on Monday, 1st July, 2024 ruled against the Biden administration’s pause on approving new facilities that export liquefied natural gas.

In a decision issued late Monday, U.S. District Judge James D. Cain Jr. ruled in favor of Louisiana and 15 other Republican-led states that had challenged the move.

The judge, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote that the pause “is completely without reason or logic and is perhaps the epiphany of ideocracy [sic],” reports Washington Post.