The Senate on Thursday reversed a Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency rule that imposes a methane emissions fee on oil and natural gas facilities, sending it to President Donald Trump to sign.

Senators voted 52-47 to pass Sen. John Hoeven’s (R-ND) bill to undo the EPA’s “Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions.” The rule imposes an annual fee on oil and gas facilities that emit methane emissions exceeding a certain threshold.

The House on Wednesday voted to pass a companion bill introduced by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX). The bill will now be sent to the Oval Office for Trump to sign. Republicans argue that the regulation is an attack on domestic energy production by the previous administration.

“American households and businesses depend every day on access to affordable and reliable energy,” Hoeven said in a press release.

“The best way to bring down prices for U.S. consumers is to increase supply,” he added. “That’s why we’re working to rescind policies like the Natural Gas Tax, among the many other costly and burdensome taxes and regulations imposed under the Biden administration. Doing so will help unleash our domestic energy production and make our nation energy dominant once again.”

The regulation was implemented as part of former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that Democrats passed in 2022.

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Eliminating the fee will reduce revenues to the Treasury by about $7.5 billion over the next few years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Both Pfluger and Hoeven introduced their bills through the Congressional Review Act, a special legislative process to bypass the filibuster. It allows a simple majority vote in both chambers to cancel regulations. Republican lawmakers will continue to seek to eliminate previous Biden regulations under the CRA in the coming weeks.