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The bill preserves state control and near-term economic stability in producing states but limits federal authority to impose rapid, nationwide protections against fracking-related health and environmental risks, potentially leaving affected communities less protected.
State governments retain primary authority over fracking on State and private lands, preserving their regulatory control and consistency for local permitting and oversight.
Energy companies and utilities face lower near-term risk of a federal moratorium, reducing regulatory uncertainty for ongoing oil and gas operations.
Homeowners and local economies in producing states avoid sudden job losses and economic disruption that an immediate, unilateral federal moratorium could cause.
Federal executive branch officials (and the public) have reduced flexibility to take rapid emergency action—including imposing a moratorium—if new fracking-related health or environmental risks emerge, potentially delaying protections.
Residents in non-producing or downwind/downstream communities have reduced ability to obtain swift federal intervention for interstate pollution or other cross-border harms from fracking.
If Congress is gridlocked, affected communities (including homeowners and rural areas) could be left without a mechanism to enact a federal moratorium even when evidence supports one, leaving long-term environmental or health harms unaddressed.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Prevents the President from imposing a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing on State and private lands unless Congress passes a law expressly authorizing such a moratorium, and states that primary authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing should remain with the States. It affirms State primacy over fracking regulation and limits the President's ability to unilaterally halt fracking on non-federal lands.
Prevents the President from imposing a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing on State and private lands unless Congress enacts a law authorizing such a moratorium, and affirms State primacy over fracking regulation.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by August Pfluger · Last progress February 10, 2025