A half-dozen House Democrats joined Republicans in their quest to nullify what they criticized as “an ill-conceived natural gas tax.”
On Wednesday, the House voted to overturn a methane emissions regulation central to the Democrats’ 2022 climate law. And a companion measure advanced in the Senate.
The resolutions are part of the GOP’s offensive against late-stage Biden environmental regulations via the Congressional Review Act, a maneuver that allows Congress and the White House to kill rules finalized in roughly the past six months.
“At the end of the Biden administration, they finalized a bunch of rules through the EPA through the regulatory bodies that were overburdensome — that didn’t help our producers lower emissions, which was the stated goal — it did the opposite,” sponsor Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) told reporters on the Capitol.
