Bruce Westerman: “Fracking has been challenged. It has been challenged by the Biden administration, and fortunately, the courts stepped in…”

“Fracking has been challenged. It has been challenged by the Biden administration, and fortunately, the courts stepped in and said that you can't regulate fracking to the BLM. If you look at what our abundant clean supply of natural gas in the United States has done, it has allowed us to reduce emissions more than any country in the world. We produce the cleanest, most reliable gas in the world with a 40 percent cleaner carbon footprint than what Russia produces. Natural gas not only provides jobs and energy here at home, but it can be a source of national security to help bolster our partners around the world. We are blessed with natural gas from the Permian Basin in west Texas and New Mexico to the Marcellus and Utica shale plays in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. I believe those two combined are the largest natural gas field in the world. We have a tremendous resource that we can use to do many good things, and if fracking were banned, that resource goes away. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Pfluger), the lead sponsor of the bill.”