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The bill accelerates a shift away from fossil fuels—delivering local health benefits, lower emissions, and support for clean‑energy jobs and domestic energy resilience—at the cost of significant economic disruption for fossil‑dependent workers, regions, and industries, plus regulatory uncertainty and potential price/supply impacts during the transition.
Frontline, low-income, and disadvantaged communities near oil, gas, and fossil infrastructure will face lower local air and water pollution and reduced health and safety risks as federal policy and a fracking ban reduce local contamination and seismic impacts.
Americans broadly stand to gain reduced greenhouse gas emissions and improved climate outcomes because the bill bars high‑GHG new steam plants, limits GHG‑intensive LNG approvals, and cuts practices that increase methane leakage.
Energy workers and unions could gain access to new clean‑energy jobs, training, and federal partnerships as deployment of lower‑emission generation is accelerated.
Workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel extraction and production (including fracking) face significant job losses, income declines, and local economic disruption as operations wind down.
Broad regulatory changes (EPA authority to expand the GHG list, removal of FERC export pathway, and shifting approvals to the Commerce/President) create major uncertainty and potential delays for developers, lenders, and state regulators, chilling investment and project planning.
Restrictions on LNG approvals, a fracking ban, and limits on exports could tighten supply in some regions and raise energy prices for consumers and businesses, particularly during transition periods.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Bans new emitting steam power units and hydraulic fracturing, restricts LNG approvals, and bars crude oil/natural gas exports except narrow Commerce/Presidential exceptions.
Official title: To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the emission of any greenhouse gas in any quantity from any new electric utility steam generating unit, and for other purposes.
Introduced September 18, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress September 18, 2025
Prohibits new greenhouse-gas–emitting electricity units and large fossil-fuel infrastructure, bans hydraulic fracturing from Jan 1, 2029, and largely ends crude oil and natural gas exports unless the Commerce Secretary and President allow limited exceptions. It also bars FERC from approving LNG terminal projects except when a project demonstrably reduces greenhouse-gas emissions and adds a Clean Air Act provision treating any greenhouse-gas emission from a new electric utility steam generating unit as a violation. The bill directs a federal transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy, emphasizes worker and environmental-justice protections, and shifts primary export-control authority for oil and gas to the Commerce Secretary and President while removing some prior Natural Gas Act export-authorization procedures.