{"id":880359,"date":"2021-10-14T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T22:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=880359"},"modified":"2021-10-14T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T22:14:10","slug":"americans-are-hurting-19-states-urge-congress-to-reject-policies-that-would-cause-higher-energy-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-are-hurting-19-states-urge-congress-to-reject-policies-that-would-cause-higher-energy-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Americans Are Hurting\u2019: 19 States Urge Congress To Reject Policies That Would Cause Higher Energy Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericans-are-hurting-19-states-urge-congress-to-reject-policies-that-would-cause-higher-energy-prices%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=880359&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A 19-state coalition urged Congress to reject a proposed methane fee that would punish producers as energy prices continue to surge.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would cost consumers $14.4 billion and could jeopardize up to 155,000 jobs, the states led by West Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.wv.gov\/Documents\/2021.10.14%20Methane%20Letter.pdf\">wrote in a letter<\/a> to Senate leaders Thursday, citing a study from the American Petroleum Institute. It was first introduced in the Methane Emissions Reduction Act \u2014 unveiled by Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in March \u2014 which proposed to charge oil and gas suppliers $1,800 per metric ton of methane emitted beyond a certain threshold.<\/p>\n<p>A similar fee, reduced to $1,500 per metric ton, was <a href=\"https:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov\/files\/documents\/Subtitle%20A_Air%20Pollution_0.pdf#page=26\">included<\/a> in Democrats\u2019 sweeping reconciliation package making its way through the House. The fee <a href=\"https:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov\/files\/documents\/Memo_FC%20MU_2021.9.9_0.pdf#page=4\">would be applied<\/a> to emissions of a set intensity and to facilities that produce more than 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/08\/republican-attorneys-general-states-lawsuit-climate-change-joe-biden-pete-buttigieg\/\">emissions<\/a> per year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed tax is neither necessary nor appropriate,\u201d the states\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/10\/republican-attorneys-general-joe-biden-administration-keystone-climate-change-taxation-immigration\/\">attorneys general<\/a> wrote. \u201cWe support reasonable and lawful measures to reduce methane emissions. But a de facto tax administered through an onerous administrative regime is not that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge you to reject any methane tax and save American energy consumers from ever more painful price increases,\u201d they continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/13\/republicans-climate-change-environment-conservation-plan\/\">(RELATED: \u2018We\u2019re Off Track\u2019: Here\u2019s How Republicans Plan To Move The Needle On Climate Change)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7302178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7302178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse listens as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks at a climate rally on Sept. 13. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The attorneys general implored the leaders to focus on encouraging affordable energy solutions rather than policies that could threaten American jobs and increase consumer costs.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. heating costs are expected to jump as much as 54% this winter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/outlooks\/steo\/report\/WinterFuels.php\">according<\/a> to a report Wednesday from the Energy Information Administration. The average price of gasoline increased to $3.30 per gallon Thursday, a more than 50% jump year-over-year, AAA data <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">showed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese soaring prices will add to the steep amounts\u2014the highest since 2014\u2014that Americans are paying at the pump,\u201d the attorneys general stated. \u201cAnd all these price jumps come after a COVID-19 pandemic that caused utility arrearages to reach record levels. In short, Americans are hurting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter was addressed to the Democratic and Republican leaders on the Senate Environment and Energy Committees.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of oil and gas industry groups, including the American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum Association of America and American Gas Association (AGA), all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipaa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/API-Methane-Fee-Opposition-Letter.pdf\">lined up<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aga.org\/globalassets\/letter-to-congress-on-methane-fees-090721_final.pdf\">against<\/a> the proposed methane fee. The provision would \u201craise costs for customers, creating a burden that will fall most heavily on lower-income Americans,\u201d the AGA wrote in a letter signed by nearly 30 other groups.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-state coalition urged Congress to reject a proposed methane fee that would punish producers as energy prices continue to surge.The legislation would cost consumers $14.4 billion and could jeopardize &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}