House GOP Floats Methane Fee Repeal As EPA Crafts Implementing Rule

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans are advancing a bill that would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) oil and gas methane fee, even as outside groups prepare formal comments on EPA’s methane emissions standards and the agency develops a proposed rule to implement the fee. While observers are assigning dim prospects for GOP efforts to undo the methane levy, some oil and gas industry officials are claiming messy unanswered questions about how the fee will work in practice while...