Joe Biden just did the rarest thing in US politics: he stood up to the oil industry | Bill McKibben

Joe Biden halted the granting of new permits for building liquefied natural gas export terminals.

Biden has called their bluff, and it’s beautiful to watch, writes Andrew Keen .

Keen: The idea that natural gas is a bridge fuel’ is a decade out of date, but it's an argument that big oil wants to extend four or five decades into the future.

Keen argues that we need to make the climate crisis worse to pay for all the damage caused by fossil fuels.

Bill McKibben : LNG export infrastructure would raise energy costs for Americans by 9 to 14% .

Polls show that Americans don't want to frack their country to send cheap gas to China .

But it’s getting far easier for enlightened leaders to stand up to them.