Republicans unveil effort blocking Biden’s crackdown on oil, gas drilling [Video]

FIRST ON FOX: A coalition of Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate is introducing a bill Thursday to overturn President Biden’s environmental regulations targeting oil and gas drilling.

The bill takes aim at rules the Environmental Protection Agency finalized late last year to curb methane and other air pollutants generated by the fossil fuel sector. The effort is being led by Texas Republican Reps. Jodey Arrington and August Pfluger and Tracey Mann, R-Kan., in the House and Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., in the Senate.

“The overly broad and burdensome methane rule is yet another example of President Biden weaponizing the regulatory state to appease climate activists at the expense of the American people,” Arrington said. 

“One of the only promises President Biden has followed through on is his campaign vow to end fossil fuels,” Pfluger said. “This methane rule imposes unworkable burdensome restrictions on energy producers in regions like the Permian Basin that …