Natural gas transporters are urging the Biden administration to pursue a long-term solution to New England’s energy security issues ahead of a potentially “perilous” winter season.

In a letter to the White House on Monday, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) CEO Amy Andryszak called on the president to address “the root cause of the region’s long-standing electric reliability problems – a lack of adequate natural gas infrastructure – rather than focus only on short-term, ‘emergency’ solutions that were neither intended nor designed to address systemic issues like those present in New England.”

Despite its proximity to the prolific Appalachian Basin, home to the Marcellus and Utica shale formations, a lack of domestic pipeline capacity means...