The government must hold heat-from-earth lease sales each year.
H.R. 1687 — CLEAN Act · Filed by Russ Fulcher (R-ID) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 27, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill changes rules for heat-from-earth power on federal land. The government must hold lease sales each year instead of when it chooses. The government must offer at least 75% of suggested land for lease. It must write down why if it does not. If a lease sale gets canceled or delayed, the government must hold a new sale. This new sale must happen that same year. The Interior Department must decide on drilling permits within 30 days. It has 10 more days after a firm gives missing facts.
Who it affects
Heat-from-earth firms and drilling crews will get faster permits and more land to lease. The Interior Department must move faster on choices. The public and tribes may have less time to comment.
One thing to notice
The bill sets tight deadlines for the government to approve drilling permits. It requires the government to lease at least 75% of suggested land. This limits the government's power to say no for environmental reasons.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 3 Republicans, 1 Democrats.
- Feb 27, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 27, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Dec 16, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Apr 21, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Apr 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent”
- Jun 2, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3758-3759)”
- Jun 2, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
8 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 12 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $22,430,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 21 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 88% of bills with any report.
Russ Fulcher, who sponsored the bill, received $367,570 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $16,950,000 in 1 report
- Fervo Energy Company — $2,220,000 in 4 reports
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. — $1,670,000 in 1 report
- Americans for Prosperity — $660,000 in 1 report
- Corporate Energy Buyers Association — $380,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- heat-from-earth — Heat power from deep inside the Earth, used to make power.
- lease — A contract that lets a firm use land for a set time and pay money.
- Interior Department — The federal agency that manages public land and natural resources.
- permit — Official permission from the government to do something.
- suggested — Put forward as a choice.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,915 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,928 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-03.
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