U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Friday it has granted a liquefied natural gas export license to the Commonwealth LNG project in Louisiana, the first approval of LNG exports after former President Joe Biden paused them early last year.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formally creating a National Energy Dominance Council and directed it to drive up already record-setting domestic oil and gas production.

President Donald Trump said Friday that Japan would soon begin importing record amounts of liquefied natural gas from Alaska. But plans for the $44 billion Alaska LNG project — the lone LNG export project in the state — don’t call for exports of gas until 2031. And that’s if the project can be built at all.

The Trump administration granted its first approval for a project to export liquefied natural gas as the administration seeks to make good on a pledge to unleash a torrent of fuel shipments.