Methane Emissions ‘Tax’ Draws Scrutiny on EPA’s Collection Role

The GOP is taking aim at energy tax provisions from last year’s tax-and-climate-law, advancing a bill to repeal a charge on methane emissions they say brings the EPA into the “tax collection business.”

Republicans on both the tax-writing House Ways and Means and the Energy and Commerce Committees said the bill, which would repeal a charge on methane emissions from specific oil and gas facilities, is just the beginning of the GOP’s attacks on the law enacted in August. The legislation, the Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act, may also open up a conversation on fixes needed to the Inflation Reduction ...