On Motion to Recommit — H R 26 — Protecting American Energy Production Act

- This House bill from the 119th Congress is titled the Protecting American Energy Production Act. - Official subject tags include relations between Congress and the executive branch, mining, oil and gas, presidential powers, state and local government, and energy. - The official summary says the President could not declare a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes it. - The bill would also state the sense of Congress that states should keep primacy, or authority, to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands. - Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is described as injecting water, a propping agent such as sand, and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture a geologic formation and extract underground resources such as oil or gas.