Sponsors (12)
Introduced September 18, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress September 18, 2025
The bill trades accelerated emissions reductions, local health improvements, and a prioritized domestic energy posture for concentrated economic dislocation and regulatory uncertainty for fossil-fuel workers, state revenues, and some energy-sector investors.
Frontline, low-income, and rural communities will face reduced air and water pollution and lower local health risks as federal policy shifts away from fossil fuels and bans new fracking, improving local public-health outcomes.
The bill would materially reduce greenhouse gas emissions over time by prohibiting high-GHG new steam plants, restricting approvals for high-emitting LNG projects, and phasing out fracking, supporting climate mitigation.
Federal emphasis on clean-energy deployment and GHG limits could accelerate renewable and storage investments and create new clean-energy jobs and training through federal–labor partnerships.
Workers and communities tied to fossil fuel extraction, processing, and export are likely to suffer job losses, reduced incomes, and local economic decline as fracking is phased out and export/production are constrained.
Restrictions on new high‑emitting plants, limits on LNG approvals, fracking bans, and export curbs could raise energy prices or create regional supply and reliability risks for consumers and firms.
Prohibitions and phase-outs risk stranding investments and assets held by energy companies and utilities, producing write-downs that may be passed to customers or taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Bans hydraulic fracturing (effective 2029), bars greenhouse-gas emissions from new steam electric units, restricts FERC LNG approvals, and largely prohibits crude oil and gas exports with narrow exceptions.
Prohibits hydraulic fracturing nationwide starting January 1, 2029; treats any greenhouse-gas emission from a new electric utility steam generating unit as a violation of the Clean Air Act beginning on enactment; bars FERC from approving new LNG terminals or issuing certificates unless the project reduces greenhouse gases; and largely bans exports of domestically produced crude oil and natural gas while allowing a narrow set of Commerce/President-authorized exceptions. It also shifts primary export-control authority over oil and gas toward the Secretary of Commerce and the President by amending existing export statutes.