(BISMARCK) – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement after a U.S. District Court temporarily blocked the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from enforcing its natural gas venting and flaring rule. The ruling comes as a result of a lawsuit filed by the State of North Dakota, along with Montana, Texas, Wyoming and Utah. Hoeven has pressed back on the rule, which places burdensome and duplicative methane emission regulations on the development of federal oil and gas resources.
“North Dakota is a leader in energy production, so it only makes sense that our state would lead the court challenge of the Biden administration’s unnecessary and duplicative methane rule, and this ruling is welcome progress in stopping the overregulation that is handcuffing our domestic energy producers,” said Hoeven. “At the same time, we continue to fight back against the Biden administration’s regulatory onslaught and Green New Deal policies that are driving up consumer costs and harming our nation’s energy security.”
Hoeven has been working to empower greater U.S. domestic energy production and is sponsoring legislation to provide regulatory relief in the federal permitting process, including a bill to streamline and set deadlines for multi-agency National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews of natural gas pipeline and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects.
