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Lobbying: ‘America First’ or coal first? LNG groups want to know -

The Trump administration has proposed a plan to aid the declining domestic coal and nuclear power industries by keeping ailing generators afloat on national security grounds. This potential bailout of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry’s competitors could depress gas production. At the same time, Trump’s protectionist trade policies have led China—the world’s largest growing market for natural gas exports— to consider placing a 25 percent tariff on U.S. fuel. The anxious LNG industry is left realizing it may have underestimated the impact an ‘America First’ agenda would have.