The House has adopted the first two measures in a six-bill package to restore the United States’ “energy dominance” and roll back President Joe Biden’s “green energy policies” that Republicans say increase energy costs and benefit adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party, Russia, and Iran.
Lawmakers on March 20 passed proposals to ban presidents from imposing moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing—fracking—without Congressional approval and to block enactment of oil/gas regulations and royalty rate hikes on federal public lands included in 2021’s Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act and 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act.
