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The bill prioritizes domestic affordability, energy reliability, and pollution concerns by enabling restrictions and oversight on LNG exports, but that comes at the cost of export revenues and jobs, potential regional or long-term price volatility, and added geopolitical and emergency-response risks.
Homeowners, middle-class and low-income households could face lower residential natural gas bills if LNG exports are restricted, reducing monthly energy costs.
Households and state governments could see improved energy affordability and reliability during high-demand periods or supply shocks if more gas is retained domestically.
Rural communities and racial/ethnic minorities could experience improved air quality and health outcomes if the bill's focus on methane and local harms leads to stricter pollution controls.
Utilities, energy producers and workers could lose export revenues and profits, risking job losses across the natural gas and export sectors.
Consumers in some regions — and potentially nationwide over time — could face higher energy prices if export limits reduce market liquidity, deter investment, or produce market distortions.
Constraining LNG exports or adding export conditions could raise geopolitical and trade tensions, reduce U.S. leverage in energy markets, and complicate relationships with importing allies.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Directs the President to prohibit U.S. natural gas exports except for exemptions that require a presidential finding and prior congressional joint-resolution approval.
Introduced December 18, 2025 by Adriano J. Espaillat · Last progress December 18, 2025
Directs the President to issue rules that would prohibit exports of natural gas produced in the United States, subject only to narrow exemptions that require a presidential finding and prior congressional approval by joint resolution. It also records findings that expanding U.S. LNG exports has raised domestic energy prices and harmed public health and the climate, and it removes certain existing statutory provisions governing exports.