<p>Over the past couple of days, the GOP-led Congress took action to repeal a pair of rules from the final months of the Biden administration that implemented a methane emissions fee and energy conservation standards for gas-fired water heaters.</p>
<p>The House voted 220-206 on Wednesday to pass a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/35/all-actions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joint resolution</a> from Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) that provides for congressional disapproval of the EPA&#8217;s methane emissions fee on oil and gas facilities. One member voted &#8220;present.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Thursday, the House voted 221-198 to pass a similar <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measure</a> from Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) that takes aim at the Energy Department&#8217;s rule on energy conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters. Two members voted &#8220;present.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;House Republicans are rolling back burdensome and misguided rules the Biden administration shamelessly exacted on the American people on its way out the door,&#8221; Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) said in a statement obtained by The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>Emmer went on to say, &#8220;For four years the Biden administration, aided by Congressional Democrats, waged war on American consumers all in the name of their radical, unfounded climate agenda — House Republicans say no more.&#8221;</p>
<p>The resolution focused on the methane emissions fee passed through the Senate <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1895174884839293297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52-47</a> on Thursday. President Donald Trump&#8217;s advisers have recommended he sign it into law, according to an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) statement of administration policy.</p>
<p>“I applaud the Senate&#8217;s swift passage of my CRA to reverse the Biden-era&#8217;s harmful natural gas tax,&#8221; Pfluger said in a statement, adding later, &#8220;I am thrilled that this legislation is now headed to the President&#8217;s desk to eliminate this harmful tax once and for all!&#8221;</p>
<p>The OMB has also released a <a href="https://x.com/USRepGaryPalmer/status/1894437859664564729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> in support of nullifying the Biden-era water heater rule, after which Palmer <a href="https://palmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/trump-administration-releases-sap-favor-palmer-legislation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> his thanks and said any similar rules in the future &#8220;should be rescinded so that consumer choice is protected and prices remain affordable.&#8221;</p>
<p>Democrats who opposed the resolutions echoed the Biden administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-finalizes-rule-reduce-wasteful-methane-emissions-and-drive-innovation-oil-and-gas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that the rules on the methane emissions fee and water heaters finalized in the weeks after the 2024 election would help stop the &#8220;climate crisis&#8221; and lower energy costs.</p>
<p>After the lower chamber passed Pfluger&#8217;s resolution, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said, &#8220;House Republicans are leveraging the Congressional Review Act to support President Trump in undoing the damage of the Biden Administration’s war on American energy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Johnson also said of the Biden-era methane emissions fee: &#8220;This overreach has driven up energy prices, hurt domestic natural gas production, and increased reliance on foreign energy — without delivering any so-called environmental benefit.&#8221;</p>
<p>On the first day of his second term in the White House, Trump signed the national emergency <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-energy-emergency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaration</a>, which ordered agencies to boost domestic energy production and infrastructure. Trump has also <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-the-national-energy-dominance-council/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">established</a> a &#8220;National Energy Dominance Council.&#8221;</p>

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