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GOP to fight back against Biden’s ‘war on energy’ in key vote this month

House Republicans in March will take up legislation from House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., that's aimed at reversing two years of the Biden administration's energy policies.

House Republicans will vote later this month on a bill countering Biden administration’s “war on energy,” one that attacks everything from President Biden’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, to broad restrictions on oil and gas development, to last year’s creation of a $27 billion “green bank” fund at EPA.

GOP leaders will call up the Lower Energy Costs Act, a bill that reflects months of work by Republicans to catalog and dismantle various moves by the Biden administration to tamp down on the oil, gas and coal resources that still account for a majority of America’s energy mix.

“For the last two years, President Biden and his extremist friends in Washington have waged a war on American energy, and hard-working families across the country are paying the price,” said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who sponsored the bill. 

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House Republicans in March will take up legislation from House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., that’s aimed at reversing two years of the Biden administration’s energy policies. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The 174-page bill is the most ambitious effort yet by House Republicans to attack Biden’s energy policy,  which they say has only led to higher gas and home heating prices and has shut down the chance for new job growth related to exploring America’s energy resources.

“From the gas station to the grocery store, President Biden’s war on energy is making life unaffordable for the hardworking people of this country and forcing us to be dangerously reliant on supply chains controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. We must reverse course,” said House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash.

The bill would reverse several of the policies put in place in Biden’s first two years and signals congressional disapproval for those that can’t be reversed.

It prohibits a ban on hydraulic fracturing in a bid to reject Biden’s decision in his first week in office to ban new fracking on federal land. It kills a moratorium on coal leases on federal land that started in the Obama administration and was revived by the Biden administration. It repeals a tax created by the Inflation Reduction Act on methane emissions that is expected to ding the oil and gas industry for more than $6 billion over the next decade.

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