A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy.
This joint resolution terminates the national emergency relating to energy declared by the President on January 20, 2025, in Executive Order 14156. The executive order states that the supply of and infrastructure for energy in the United States is insufficient to meet the country's needs. It defines energy as crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals. The executive order directs the heads of executive departments and agencies to use available emergency and other authorities to take certain actions to address this topic, including approving development of domestic energy resources, expediting the completion of authorized energy infrastructure (particularly in the Northeast, West Coast, and Alaska), and pursuing the use of emergency permitting provisions under certain environmental regulations. The executive order also directs the Department of Defense to conduct an assessment of its ability to acquire and transport energy resources (particularly in the Northeast and West Coast), and invokes emergency military construction authority to address any vulnerabilities identified in the assessment.
What this bill touches.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- people and communities near proposed energy projectsProjects near them return to the normal Clean Water Act permitting and full Endangered Species Act review steps instead of the emergency versions the order told agencies to use.
Who it burdens
- federal agencies and the PresidentThey lose the emergency authorities the declaration carried: the standing direction to use any lawful emergency power to speed energy projects, the channel to recommend federal eminent domain or Defense Production Act action, and the military construction authority the order switched on.
- companies developing oil, gas, coal, uranium and critical-mineral projectsTheir projects lose the emergency fast track the order set up - emergency Army Corps water permits and emergency Endangered Species Act handling - and go back through the ordinary, slower review process.
The provisions, in plain language.
Ends the national energy emergency the President declared on January 20, 2025, so the powers that came with that declaration no longer apply. Federal agencies would stop being directed to use emergency shortcuts - fast-track Army Corps water permits and emergency handling of Endangered Species Act reviews - to speed up oil, gas, coal, uranium and critical-mineral projects, and the special military construction authority the declaration switched on would no longer be available. Those projects would go back through the normal permit and review steps.