{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-statement-on-biden-administrations-burdensome-rules-for-oil-and-natural-gas-producer", "Hoeven Statement on Biden Administration\u2019s Burdensome Rules for Oil and Natural Gas Producers", "2023-12-02", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "John Hoeven", "H001061", "www.hoeven.senate.gov", "hoeven", "https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "Hoeven Statement on Biden Administration\u2019s Burdensome Rules for Oil and Natural Gas Producers\n\nBISMARCK, N.D. \u2013 Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan finalized the agency\u2019s methane emissions rule imposing burdensome and duplicative regulations on energy producers.\n\n\u201cInstead of unleashing more domestic energy production, the Biden administration continues to put the handcuffs on our producers through burdensome and duplicative regulations,\u201d said Hoeven. \u201cThis EPA rule will drive up energy costs for consumers and increase U.S. reliance on energy imports, including from adversarial foreign nations with little to no regard for environmental or labor standards. The Biden administration needs to reverse course and start empowering energy and natural gas producers here at home, for the good of our economy and our national security.\u201d\n\nEarlier this year, Hoeven and the North Dakota delegation pushed back on the rule\u2019s one-size-fits-all approach and outlined how it would force energy producers to shut down operations due to unworkable mandates, harming the nation\u2019s energy security, reducing revenues to states, tribes and local governments and eliminating good-paying jobs. The EPA\u2019s proposed rule is duplicative of the gas capture goals set by the North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC) without providing the same regulatory flexibility. Under the NDIC goal, North Dakota\u2019s gas production grew to record levels and operators currently are achieving a gas capture rate of 95%.\n\n-###-", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-statement-on-biden-administrations-burdensome-rules-for-oil-and-natural-gas-producer"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9786427728831768, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}