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H.R. 484: Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act
Bill Summary: The U.S. plan to start taxing methane still doesn’t go as far as New Zealand’s October proposal to tax cow burps. # Context When Congress enacted the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022, the biggest climate and energy law ever, the legislation passed on a party-line vote. No Republicans supported it, in either the House or the Senate, arguing against its costs and regulations. Methane comprises 11% of U.S. human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. So in an effort to decrease the …