House votes to roll back Obama fracking rules

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Examiner:

The House voted Friday to repeal an Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing methane emissions from fracking.

 

Lawmakers voted 221-191 in favor of a resolution disapproving of the Obama-era rule from the Department of the Interior. Federal law allows Congress to override recently approved regulations under the Congressional Review Act.

 

The resolution rolls back an eleventh-hour regulation aimed at cutting methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from oil and natural gas wells on federal lands as part of former President Obama's climate change agenda. The Senate is expected to vote soon on a companion resolution repealing the methane venting and flaring regulations.

 

Environmental groups condemned the repeal as a license to pollute for drillers, while wasting valuable methane gas that should be paid for by companies operating on public lands instead of burnt off and just released into the air.

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Frack the environmentalists.