Legislation· Feb 2025Sponsored by John Hoeven (R)
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions".
Would block an rule that charges oil and gas companies for excess methane emissions.
Tradeoff
Blocks 's methane emissions charge on oil and gas producers. Eliminates a revenue source the used to fund the program.
What's in it
The Senate agreed to proceed to the bill on February 26, 2025, by a vote of 52-47. The bill remains in the Senate.
Senate
Introduced
(Feb 4, 2025)
Senate
Committee on Environment and Public Works(Feb 4, 2025)
Senate
Taken away from the Committee on Environment and Public Works
Discharged by petition(Feb 20, 2025)
A petition forced the committee to release the bill without acting on it.
Senate
On the
Motion to Proceed to S. J. Res. 12
Motion to Proceed Agreed to(Roll #96 · Feb 26, 2025)
52 yeanay 47
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- James C. Justice (R-WV)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Tim Sheehy (R-MT)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
- Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
Recently introduced · no floor action yet