Push to end oil export ban may hinder anti-EPA energy policy riders

摘要

Republicans’ hopes to end the decades-long ban on U.S. crude oil exportsrncould make it tough to add anti-regulation riders for the energy sector in arnCongressional budget deal.rnLawmakers must pass a spending bill by Dec. 11 to avoid a governmentrnshutdown. With President Barack Obama under pressure to approve thernappropriations package, expectations are high for Republican lawmakers tornseek funding limits and prohibitions on a wave of energy-sensitive environmentalrnregulations as part of the must-pass bill.