Is Biden's delay of gas export projects good news for the planet, or is it political?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Critics, however, point to evidence that boosting LNG exports drives up domestic gas prices for Americans and that the raft of planned terminals would take several years to build anyway, beyond a 2027 timeframe in which European Union countries have vowed to end reliance upon Russian gas and pivot to renewable energy.
51% : The terminals could still be built even with Biden as president, and will almost certainly go ahead if Trump is to win the election.
42% : " While the delay has been welcomed by climate activists, it will likely prove ammunition for the fossil fuel industry and its Republican allies including Donald Trump, who has vowed to "drill, baby, drill" and attacked Biden for hindering the industry, even amid a record glut of oil and gas production.
40% : "World leaders agreed to transition away from fossil fuels at the Cop28 climate negotiations last year and president Biden's decision today to pause new permits for LNG exports shows that he is taking that pledge seriously," Al Gore, the former US vice-president, said.
36% : "To preserve a livable planet, we need a public interest test that denies any new project that would drive us further into climate catastrophe and violate US commitments to transition away from fossil fuels," said Jean Su, the director of the Center for Biological Diversity's energy justice program.
36% : "Expanding LNG infrastructure in the USA and in the EU is a high economic risk that will very likely end up as stranded assets," warned Claudia Kemfert, an economic expert at the German Institute for Economic Research and Leuphana University in Germany.

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