Current Events > Senate Majority voted AGAINST Trump's Rollback on Obama's Offshore OIL DRILL!!

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In a surprise win for ENVIRONMENTALISTS and Democrats which is a blow to the big fossil-fuel industry, the US Senate voted against a resolution to revoke an Obama-era rule limiting methane missions from oil and gas prodution on federal lands!!

This is a major blow to President Trump's efforts to free the drilling industry for what he sees as an excessive environmental regulatioin

The Congressional Review Act got just 49 votes after Republican leaders scrambled to secure the 51 votes needed to pass out

Trump wanting to repeal the BLM rule had been a top priority for the oil and gas industry as they say it was unnecessary and would cost tens of thousands of dollars per well and hinder production

Not all Republicans were on board as it would have made regulating methane waste more difficult in the future.

John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins torpedoed that bill as they said the Interior Department should issue a new rule to replace the existing one on methane leaks which he says is an issue to public health and air quality

Members of the Western Energy Alliance including Devon Energy, Whiting Petroleum and EOG Resources opposed this rule but Environmentalists hailed it as a rare victory for the environment after several rollbacks by the Trump administration

Do you think these 3 Republicans did the right thing?

Graham/Collins/McCain -

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Trump - Loser

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Obama - Winner

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John "Korean captive" McCain sabotaged my rollback! Bad day for democracy! Sad!
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good for them.

as someone who lives where two major oil spills have occurred this is great news.

anyone that thinks a company's profits are more important than the world we need to exist is a fucking idiot.
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