H.R. 1121 explained · 118th Congress · Not enacted (118th Congress ended)
Protecting American Energy Production Act
Cosponsors: 29 (0 D, 29 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-11
Introduced: 2023-02-21
Latest action (2024-03-21): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
What H.R. 1121 does, in plain terms
Protecting American Energy Production Act This bill prohibits the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the formation.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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