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American Export Boom Means Goodbye to Cheap US Natural Gas

Trump’s desire for US energy dominance could mean higher prices at home.
Employees at the Venture Global Plaquemines liquefied natural gas export facility in Port Sulphur, Louisiana.Photographer: Kathleen Flynn/Bloomberg
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Welcome to our guide to the commodities driving the global economy. Today, reporters Naureen Malik and Ruth Liao look at how rising exports are pressuring US natural gas prices.

Can the Trump administration’s twin policy priorities of US “energy dominance” and affordability really coexist? We may be about to find out.