Friends of the Earth: House Committee Aims to End Crude Oil Export Ban

by Press Release on September 17, 2015

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WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2015. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted today to repeal the 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil. In 2014, sixty-nine percent of voters opposed allowing oil and gas companies to export more U.S. oil and gas to foreign countries. Were the ban lifted, estimates suggest that oil exports would rise to 1.8 million barrels per day by 2017.