Officially: “Protecting American Energy Production Act” Read the full text
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What it does
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 formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under
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1Short title
This section gives the Act its short title, the Protecting American Energy Production Act.
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1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Protecting American Energy Production Act .
2Protecting American energy production
This section states that it is the sense of Congress that states should keep primary authority over regulating hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private land. It would also bar the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing, notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless an Act of Congress specifically authorizes that moratorium.
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2. Protecting American energy production
(a) Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that States should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on State and private lands.
(b) Prohibition on declaration of a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President may not declare a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless such moratorium is authorized by an Act of Congress.
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29%
of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)
19
sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass
Who is lobbying on this
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERSvia AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
7 filings
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITYvia AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
4 filings
From 11 filings in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2025 to 2026). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (2025-02-10).