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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".
This resolution cancels an Environmental Protection Agency rule that charged fees to oil and gas companies releasing methane above federal limits. By overturning the rule, energy producers are freed from specific reporting requirements, fee calculations, and financial penalties for excess emissions from their facilities. It also bars the agency from issuing a substantially similar rule in the future without new approval from Congress.
People affected—Not determinable from the text provided; the text applies to regulated entities within petroleum and natural gas systems without citing population counts.
Fiscal magnitude—Not determinable from the text provided; the resolution references a rule concerning emissions charges, but specifies no dollar amounts or fiscal figures.
Reach50provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
Pollution & development−40Energy sources−30Greenhouse-gas policy−40
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who opposes it
- Environmental Protection AgencyDisapproves and nullifies the agency's final rule regarding compliance procedures, netting, and exemptions for the waste emissions charge, stripping the rule of legal force or effect.
The provisions, in plain language.
Nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency's rule on compliance procedures, netting, and exemptions for the waste emissions charge on petroleum and natural gas systems, rendering the rule without legal force or effect.