Oil and gas industry cheers were expected after the U.S. Senate, in the early hours of Feb. 3, passed a resolution to prevent what’s known as the “resource extraction” regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission from going into effect.

The rule, which the Obama administration finalized in June 2016, requires publicly traded oil, gas and mining companies to start disclosing payments they make to foreign governments.

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