Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
License to Drill Act
The bill centralizes mineral leasing fees into a dedicated Fund to improve predictability and transparency, but it risks reducing automatic transfers and increasing federal discretion, which could delay or shrink funding for state/local programs and create uncertainty for mineral-related operations.
To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.
The bill expands E15 sales and provides sizable regulatory relief to small refineries to preserve jobs and fuel supply, but it raises air‑quality and vehicle‑compatibility risks, shifts compliance costs that could affect fuel prices, and reduces confidentiality for exemption petitions.
PIPELINE Safety Act of 2025
The bill boosts pipeline safety and modernization—providing funding, improved oversight, technical studies, and new inspection tools—while increasing federal spending, imposing significant compliance and administrative burdens, and narrowing public access to some safety information, trading faster modernization and industry cooperation against higher costs and reduced transparency/accountability.
Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act
The bill accelerates and clarifies pipeline permitting—reducing delays and improving coordination and security attention—but does so by limiting other agencies' and local/tribal input and environmental safeguards, increasing the risk of rushed reviews and potential conflicts of interest.
Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and speeds federal approval of LNG and gas export/import infrastructure—benefiting developers and the energy sector through predictability and single-agency decisionmaking—while reducing state and public oversight and raising environmental, public-health, and governance risks for local communities and the public.
REFINER Act
The bill aims to inform actions that could lower fuel costs and bolster U.S. energy security through better data on refineries, but it risks promoting deregulation and costly federal supports that could weaken environmental protections and raise taxpayer spending.
Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act
The bill speeds and clarifies approval for cross‑border energy projects—reducing delays and investor uncertainty and potentially improving grid reliability—while trading off environmental review time, state/local oversight, and leaving taxpayers exposed to risks and costs from problems missed during expedited reviews.
National Coal Council Reestablishment Act
The bill restores a coal-focused advisory council and increases its transparency while removing its automatic sunset: it secures continuous industry expertise for DOE but risks entrenching pro-coal influence, reducing routine congressional review, and adding modest taxpayer costs.
Protecting American Energy Production Act
The bill keeps fracking regulation at the state level—providing industry certainty and local control—but limits the federal government's ability to act quickly on cross-state or urgent health and environmental harms, creating potential uneven protections and response gaps.
Recognizing the ability of solar, storage, and wind to quickly and cheaply meet United States power demand growth.
The bill highlights that expanding cheap renewables and storage can lower long-term power costs and improve grid resilience, but without careful timing, funding, and community transition plans it could create near-term reliability risks, higher costs, and local economic dislocation.
Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the European Union's actions to diversify from Russian energy sources.
The resolution strengthens U.S. and European energy security and reduces Russian war‑funding, but imposes short‑term economic and employment costs—higher prices, supply risks, and disruption for energy workers and some consumer populations—during the transition away from Russian fuels.
PROTECT USA Act of 2025
The bill strengthens protections and rapid government tools to keep U.S. supply chains, critical-fuel planning, and select firms insulated from foreign sustainability rules—supporting jobs and continuity—but does so at the cost of higher environmental/social risks, increased legal and diplomatic friction, and broader executive discretion that may be politicized.
Unlocking Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and speeds federal permitting for energy import/export facilities—benefiting energy companies and project timelines—but concentrates federal authority and weakens local, congressional, and judicial oversight, raising legal uncertainty and reducing community control.
Abandoned Well Remediation Research and Development Act
The bill funds coordinated research and data collection to reduce environmental and health risks from abandoned wells and to explore low‑carbon repurposing, but it requires taxpayer spending and risks prioritizing repurposing or commercial interests over immediate plugging and remediation while being implemented on a tight timeline.
Bureau of Land Management Mineral Spacing Act
The bill speeds and lowers-cost development for non‑Federal-surface wells by shifting surface permitting to States/Tribes and reducing DOI oversight, but it also reduces federal protections and bonding—raising the risk that cleanup costs and safety impacts fall to local communities and taxpayers, while leaving tribal regulatory differences in place.
MERP Clarifications Act of 2025
The bill reduces near-term compliance costs and administrative burdens for many small oil/gas producers and clarifies calculation/transparency, but at the cost of weaker enforcement, delayed incentives to cut methane, uneven state-level treatment, and reduced long‑term funding/certainty for mitigation.
End EPA Abuse Act of 2026
The bill protects current fuel choices and short-term grid and vehicle-market stability, but does so by constraining EPA authority in ways that could raise air-pollution risks, slow adoption of cleaner technologies, and reduce incentives for clean-energy investment over the long term.
Let America Build Act of 2026
The bill speeds permitting and increases predictability by delegating authority to states, imposing strict timelines, and streamlining review processes — but it does so by narrowing environmental review, limiting federal oversight and expert input, and significantly restricting judicial and public challenges, trading oversight and environmental safeguards for faster project approvals.
Protecting Americans from High Electricity Prices Act of 2026
The bill prioritizes protecting domestic energy affordability, reducing lifecycle emissions, and aligning exports with national‑security concerns, but does so at the cost of higher compliance burdens, regulatory uncertainty, and potential reductions in LNG exports, jobs, and export revenue.
Offshore Leasing Standards and Accountability Act of 2026
This bill shifts the financial and oversight burden of offshore decommissioning away from taxpayers and toward leaseholders while improving safety and transparency, but it raises near-term costs and regulatory barriers that disproportionately strain smaller operators, may accelerate industry consolidation, and could have downstream effects on prices and investment.
Protect Domestic Oil and Gas Small Business Act of 2026
The bill substantially reduces regulatory and legal burdens for marginal well operators and speeds state approvals, but does so at the likely expense of local and regional air quality, public health, and fair allocation of cleanup costs and regulatory deterrence.
Protecting America’s Small Oil and Gas Producers and Rural Jobs Act
The bill increases tax benefits and cash flow for oil and gas producers—supporting marginal wells and local energy jobs—but does so at the expense of federal revenue, with potential environmental trade‑offs and added compliance complexity.
Supporting Made in America Energy Act
The bill expands and regularizes oil and gas leasing to boost jobs, local economic activity, and planning certainty while trading off higher greenhouse-gas and spill risks, potential revenue losses, and reduced executive flexibility to respond to emerging environmental or market concerns.
Taxing Buybacks from Big Oil Windfalls Act
The bill temporarily taxes or limits buybacks by large oil and gas firms tied to a gasoline-price trigger to raise federal revenue and encourage cash retention for investment or lower prices, but it risks higher consumer fuel costs, reduced returns for oil‑sector shareholders, and extra administrative burdens.
LNG Export Security Act
The bill speeds and prioritizes domestic natural gas development and approvals to bolster energy availability and resilience, while increasing risks to local control, environmental and climate outcomes, and potential taxpayer costs.
Unlock American Energy and Jobs Act of 2026
The bill trades faster, more certain approvals and longer authorizations for energy and infrastructure projects—benefiting developers, utilities, and some local economies—against substantially reduced environmental review, weakened state/local enforcement, and narrower judicial oversight that increase risks to communities, ecosystems, and taxpayers.
Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act
The bill increases federal market monitoring, data transparency, and enforcement tools to deter fuel-market manipulation and protect consumers, but does so at the cost of higher compliance burdens for energy firms, greater taxpayer spending, and increased risks to business confidentiality and legal uncertainty.
Fair and Transparent Gas Prices Act of 2026
The bill funds an expedited FTC study (with staff and funding) to increase transparency and potentially lower fuel prices and improve alternative-fuel access, trading modest federal cost and greater reporting/scrutiny on energy companies for delayed, study-driven relief for consumers.
Energy Consumer Protection Act of 2026
The bill strengthens enforcement to protect energy market integrity and reduce manipulation-driven price distortions, but it raises compliance costs and risks short-term market disruption if regulators bar key participants or expand enforcement to private price-reporting activities.
No Big Fossil Bailouts on Your Power Bill Act
The bill improves transparency, consumer notice, environmental consideration, and local input for electricity emergency orders, but these procedural safeguards add time, complexity, and cost that can slow urgent responses and reduce emergency flexibility.
