House passes bill blocking future presidents from banning oil drilling without Congress' approval

The Republican-led House passed authorities to artifact aboriginal administrations from enacting bans connected oil and state drilling without legislature approval. 

In a ballot connected Friday, lawmakers passed the "Protecting American Energy Production Act" to prohibit the president from "declaring a moratorium connected the usage of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium."

There were 118 Democrats who voted against the legislation, portion Republican House members unanimously voted successful favour of its passage.

The measure comes aft erstwhile President Joe Biden enacted respective regulations connected lipid and state during his term, including banning aboriginal lipid and state drilling on 625 cardinal acres of coastal and offshore waters conscionable weeks earlier helium near office. 

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Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, the Republican who introduced the bill, said concerns implicit imaginable fracking bans during the Biden medication was what prompted the legislation.

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"When President Biden took office, his medication took a 'whole of government' attack to wage warfare connected American vigor production, pandering to woke biology extremists and crippling this thriving industry," Pfluger said successful a connection pursuing the bill's passage.

"My authorities that passed contiguous is simply a indispensable archetypal measurement successful reversing Biden’s warfare connected vigor by preventing the national authorities from banning the usage of hydraulic fracturing," helium said. 

Since the run trail, President Donald Trump has vowed to unleash American-made vigor arsenic portion of his "drill, baby, drill" agenda.

The legislation, if signed by the president into law, would forestall aboriginal administrations from banning the drilling method.

On Monday, Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum stripped the vigor sector of "coercive" clime policies and lipid lease bans enacted nether the Biden administration, launching interior investigations into bureau actions that "burden" vigor development.