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WASHINGTON, DC – President Biden signed into law today a Resolution of Disapproval to invalidate the Trump administration's 2020 Methane Rescission Rule and reinstate two key Obama-era methane-emission rules that set stricter limits on the amount of methane that the nation's oil and gas industry can release from their drilling sites.
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to approve a Resolution of Disapproval that will invalidate the Trump administration's 2020 Methane Rescission Rule – a move that will reinstate two key Obama-era methane-emission rules and reestablish stricter regulations on the nation's oil and gas industry.
Congressional Democrats have approved a measure reinstating rules aimed at limiting climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling, a rare effort by Democrats to use the legislative branch to overturn a regulatory rollback under President Donald Trump.
The House gave final legislative approval Friday to a resolution that would undo a Trump-era environmental rule that relaxed requirements of a 2016 Obama administration rule targeting methane emissions from leaks and flares in oil and gas wells.
Congressional Democrats have approved a measure reinstating rules aimed at limiting climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas drilling, a rare effort by Democrats to use the legislative branch to overturn a regulatory rollback under President Donald Trump.
The House gave final legislative approval Friday to a resolution that would undo a Trump-era environmental rule that relaxed requirements of a 2016 Obama administration rule targeting methane emissions from leaks and flares in oil and gas wells.
U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN) reintroduced bipartisan legislation today to improve the nation's diagnostic testing capabilities and ensure hospitals and laboratories across the country are better able to respond to future national health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
A bipartisan, bicameral group is reintroducing tweaked legislation Thursday that would overhaul how the FDA oversees laboratory-developed tests and diagnostics, POLITICO's David Lim reports.
The VALID Act would regulate both lab tests and diagnostics under a new framework clarifying the responsibilities of the FDA and CMS. Reps. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) are backing the bill in the House, with Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) sponsoring the Senate version.
Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) are circulating a proposal to fulfill President Biden's dream of creating a federal research agency dedicated to finding a cure for cancer and other deadly diseases.
Since he was vice president, Biden has called on the federal government to use its tremendous resources to help end cancer, which causes more than 600,000 Americans deaths a year and killed Biden's oldest son, Beau, who died of an aggressive brain cancer in 2015.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on Thursday to advance a resolution sponsored by Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette to nullify a Trump administration rollback of federal environmental regulations limiting methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette scored a win for Colorado and by Colorado on Thursday when the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved her bill to reinstate the federal methane rule that was first rolled out in Colorado.
Her bill, if it makes it to the president and into law, would invalidate President Donald Trump’s 2020 Methane Rescission Rule and reinstate two Obama-era rules that restricted methane emissions.