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Senate Democrats Plan to Revive Obama-Era Climate Change Rule

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March 25, 2021
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Senate Democrats Plan to Revive Obama-Era Climate Change Rule

Senate Democrats plan to deploy an obscure but powerful legislative weapon in the coming weeks to try to quickly reinstate a major Obama-era climate change rule that the Trump administration had effectively eliminated.

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, is expected next month to invoke the 1996 Congressional Review Act with the goal of undoing a Trump rule finalized in September that lifted controls on the release of methane, a powerful planet-warming gas that is emitted from leaks and flares in oil and gas wells.

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Democrats argue that the move, which will be sponsored by Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, will have the legal effect of immediately reinstating the Obama methane rules. That would be a far more rapid timetable than the years long regulatory process typically required to undo or reinstate regulations.

“The Trump rule to remove limits on emissions of methane from oil and gas was an illogical and a devastating blow to one of the most important tools to curbing greenhouse gas emissions,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement. “The Democratic Senate will hold a vote to overturn this rule, which is one of many initiatives we are pursuing to fight the climate crisis.”

Under the Congressional Review Act, any regulation finalized within 60 legislative days of the end of a presidential term can be overturned with a simple majority vote in the Senate.

Before 2017, the review act procedure had been used only once, to undo a Clinton-era rule on workplace ergonomics in 2001. Then, in the early months of the Trump administration, Senate Republicans used the procedure to wipe out 14 Obama-era regulations in 16 weeks. Democrats now intend to employ it to wipe out some of the executive-branch policies enacted in the last days of the Trump administration.

The most significant of those would be the rules on methane, which were published by the Environmental Protection Agency. While most climate change regulations target carbon dioxide, the most damaging greenhouse gas, methane is a close second, lingering in the atmosphere for a shorter period of time but packing a bigger punch while it lasts. By some estimates, methane has 80 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere.

For Democrats to repeal the methane rule, they will most likely need all 50 votes of their party’s razor-thin majority — including that of Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, who often votes with Republicans on matters of environmental policy. However, in 2017, Mr. Manchin voted with his party to retain a different regulation on methane pollution.

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