{"id":32762,"date":"2025-02-07T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/house-passes-bill-blocking-future-presidents-from-banning-oil-drilling-without-congress-approval\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:06:15","slug":"house-passes-bill-blocking-future-presidents-from-banning-oil-drilling-without-congress-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/house-passes-bill-blocking-future-presidents-from-banning-oil-drilling-without-congress-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"House passes bill blocking future presidents from banning oil drilling without Congress’ approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican-led House passed legislation to block future administrations from enacting bans on oil and gas drilling<\/a> without congressional approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a vote on Friday, lawmakers passed the “Protecting American Energy Production Act” to prohibit the president from “declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium.”<\/p>\n

There were 118 Democrats who voted against the legislation, while Republican House members unanimously voted in favor of its passage.<\/p>\n

The bill comes after former President Joe Biden enacted several regulations on oil and gas during his term, including banning future oil and gas drilling<\/a> along 625 million acres of coastal and offshore waters just weeks before he left office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, the Republican who introduced the bill, said concerns over potential fracking bans during the Biden administration was what prompted the legislation.<\/p>\n

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“When President Biden took office, his administration took a ‘whole of government’ approach to wage war on American energy production, pandering to woke environmental extremists and crippling this thriving industry,” Pfluger said in a statement following the bill’s passage.<\/p>\n

“My legislation that passed today is a necessary first step in reversing Biden\u2019s war on energy by preventing the federal government from banning the use of hydraulic fracturing,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since the campaign trail, President Donald Trump<\/a> has vowed to unleash American-made energy as part of his “drill, baby, drill” agenda.<\/p>\n

The legislation, if signed by the president into law, would prevent future administrations from banning the drilling method.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum stripped the energy sector<\/a> of “coercive” climate policies and oil lease bans enacted under the Biden administration, launching internal investigations into agency actions that “burden” energy development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican-led House passed legislation to block future administrations from enacting bans on oil and gas drilling without congressional approval.\u00a0 In a vote on Friday, lawmakers passed the “Protecting American Energy Production Act” to prohibit the president from “declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium.” There were 118 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}