Posted on 03/09/2017 5:03:36 PM PST by 198ml
Last month, the House passed legislation that would repeal new controls on natural gas production installed in the waning days of the Obama administration.
It's now up to the Senate to pass a companion bill and help make the repeal official. Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner ought to lead the way; left unaltered, these controls will crush local energy firms and destroy local jobs.
Excessive regulations keep gas production on federal lands artificially low. Firms have to navigate lengthy, hugely expensive approval channels to get the green light. As a result, while gas production on private and state territories jumped 55 percent between 2010 and 2015, production on federal lands dropped 18 percent over that same period.
And that contraction costs taxpayers. Private developers shell out massive royalties to access federal lands. Indeed, if federal gas production had kept pace with the overall trends, the federal government would have collected over $4 billion.
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Senators could have repealed Obama....and they did not.
Forget about support from Senator Bennet, he is a radical leftist and hates the energy companies. Cory Gardner, who knows, he is a go along get along finger in the air kind of guy.
Why is legislation needed to undo regulations recently installed by Obama?
If this shoved through by Obongo at the end why does it take both houses to fix it. It feels like anything worthwhile is dead going into the Senate because of the 5-6 Rat moles. Can’t it be done with an EO?
(Sighhhhh) True.
Trump can issue an EO overriding a previous EO by Obama. This was a regulation issued by a federal agency, so it requires a congressional rollback.
Ok then why can’t the same agency rescind the regulation? If we have to depend on congress to fix this crap it’s becoming painfully obvious it’s not going to happen.
This is the consequence of allowing unelected bureaucrats to write regulations with the force of law.
Yes, but not as permanently. Using Trump's pen to overwrite Obama's lets the next Rat POTUS pen overwrite Trump's. The way the Congressional Review Act they're using to undo this works bans re-instating the same or similar regulations by executive fiat. They'd have to actually pass a law to specifically do it. Which is harder. Congress and Trump are being smart to do as much this way as they can, even though it takes somewhat longer. The mechanism is normally time limited so that only the last six months or so can be undone this way. However, the original author of the Act reported it could be used on older regulations, dating back to the passing of the Act, if the regulators failed to dot their i's and cross their t's in certain ways. I hope they have a group searching for eligible older regs to nuke.
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