Failed in the House on February 7, 2025 · 205 Yea, 207 Nay, 20 Not Voting
Question: On Motion to Recommit: H R 26 Protecting American Energy Production Act
In plain English: This bill prevents the President from banning hydraulic fracturing unless Congress approves it. It also states that states should keep their authority to regulate fracking on state and private lands.
Protecting American Energy Production Act This bill prohibits the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy (authority) for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic …