The latest effort by outgoing West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to weaken major environmental laws is dead, though Senate Republicans said they will revive the effort next year.

Manchin, formerly a Democrat who in May switched his affiliation to Independent, accused House Republicans in a Monday statement of “blocking” the Energy Permitting Reform Act, which would have removed large amounts of oil and gas drilling activity from federal jurisdiction and shortened the process for reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act.

One measure would have reduced the time limit to challenge a final agency decision to grant or deny authorization for a project from six years to about five months, making it harder for a community to challenge a decision in court.

Environmental groups hailed the bill’s blockage. Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center, described the bill in a statement as a “a Trojan horse for fossil fuels.”

“It is an imperative that we build out renewable energy and transmission infrastructure,” Schlenker-Goodrich said. “But a senseless ‘build, baby, build’ mentality that provides ever more concessions to the very fossil fuel interests causing the climate crisis and prioritizes the interests of developers over people and place would undermine, not accelerate, a just transition.”

West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito on Tuesday signaled that Senate Republicans would try to pass some version of the bill next year, saying that “President [Trump] is going to want it,” according to the Parkersburg News and Sentinel.