BILOXI, Miss. — Operators of a Pascagoula terminal built to import liquefied natural gas are still trying to get Department of Energy approval to export natural gas. Kinder Morgan is the pipeline company that operates the plant, and company Vice President Norman Holmes told the Southern States Energy Board on Monday that approval to export could spark as much as $8 billion of investment at the plant. The board approved a resolution calling on the Energy Department and other regulators to speed up licensing. Southern States includes the governor and one member from the House and one from the Senate from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia, plus representatives from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Sources: Associate Press via Mississippi Press, Sun Herald, 10/14/13)