[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11383]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         EPA METHANE REGULATION

  (Mr. MEADOWS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEADOWS. Mr. Speaker, as a result of the shale energy revolution, 
the United States is benefiting from the economic and energy security 
and, I might add, environmental benefits of a natural gas abundance.
  However, the EPA is threatening to take this energy advantage and 
make it a disadvantage. The EPA is currently trying to further regulate 
the byproduct of natural gas production, that of methane gas.
  The EPA, under the Obama administration, is at its worst. The Obama 
administration mission is clear: if it is not a ``green'' energy source 
that he likes, it should not exist.
  And Obama has proven that he will use the EPA to do all he can to 
make it more difficult and expensive for American families to utilize 
this incredibly wonderful source of natural gas that we have here in 
America.
  Lower energy prices for Americans, and we have also helped the 
environment.
  So I would urge all of my colleagues to join me in opposing the 
burdensome mandates that will unnecessarily hinder natural gas 
production in the United States, thereby dismantling and diminishing 
the energy advantage that we have today.

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