The 52-42 vote sets up the first official reinstatement of one of more than 100 climate regulations dismantled by the Trump administration. Regulating methane, a primary component of natural gas, is critical for advancing President Joe Biden s goal to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half from 2005 levels over the next decade and achieve a net-zero economy by 2050.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, as well as Sens. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, Angus King, I-ME, and Edward Markey, D-Mass., introduced the resolution under the Congressional Review Act, a law which allows Congress to quickly overturn a previous administration s regulations with a simple majority vote and a signature from the president.
U.S. Senate to vote on measure to reverse methane rule rollbacks in climate move
By Valerie Volcovici
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a measure to restore regulation of emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, a move that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called a big deal in fighting climate change.
Schumer, along with fellow Democrats Martin Heinrich and Ed Markey and Independent Angus King, will introduce their resolution in the Senate under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), a 1996 law that allows Congress to reverse federal rules implemented in the last days of a past administration with a simple majority.
Rolling Stone To Combat Climate Change, Senate Overturns Trump Admin. Rule on Methane Emissions
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the move is “the first of many… important steps the Senate will take” to reduce greenhouse gases
By UNITED STATES - April 28: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference about the Senate vote, later in the day, on methane regulation outside in Washington on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. The vote will use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn rollbacks of methane regulation enacted by the Trump administration. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia s Center for Politics. And my answer to that is, if we ever needed a boring president, it s the one following Donald Trump.. This is precisely what Americans hope they get.
A quietly radical agenda
But that s only one-half of an improbable dual reality, the near-contradiction that has defined the first 100 days of Biden s presidency.
Call it boring radicalism.
Biden has an agenda that would transform aspects of American life that s significantly more progressive than the one pursued by the Obama administration he served.
In his first presidential speech to Congress at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, he ll reveal the latest of several trillion-dollar plans in this case family-friendly policies, coupled with tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations.
U.S. Senate to vote on measure to reverse methane rule rollbacks in climate move
The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a measure to restore regulation of emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, a move that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called a big deal in fighting climate change. Schumer, along with fellow Democrats Martin Heinrich and Ed Markey and Independent Angus King, will introduce their resolution in the Senate under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), a 1996 law that allows Congress t…
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