Congress mandates public data on sustainable aviation fuel production.
H.R. 4562 — Sustainable Aviation Fuel Information Act · Filed by Mike Flood (R-NE) · 6 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 21, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Energy Information Administration (a federal statistical agency) to start publishing detailed data on sustainable aviation fuel—where it comes from, what feedstock is used, how much is produced in each state, and how much is imported from other countries. The data will appear in existing monthly and weekly petroleum reports. It is a transparency and information-gathering measure with no direct subsidies, restrictions, or private carve-outs.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a mandate for federal statistical reporting. It creates no new regulatory authority, no subsidies, no restrictions—only a requirement that existing government reports include additional data categories on sustainable aviation fuel.
What the text implies
- Standardized federal data on SAF may accelerate market transparency and reduce information asymmetries, potentially lowering transaction costs for SAF producers and buyers.
- Publication of state-level and country-level SAF production data could inform state and federal policy decisions on renewable fuel incentives, tax credits, or production targets.
- Detailed feedstock-origin data may expose supply-chain vulnerabilities or dependencies on specific foreign sources, informing national security or trade policy discussions.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Citizens and policymakers gain access to previously unavailable data on sustainable aviation fuel production and imports, enabling informed debate about energy policy, climate goals, and supply-chain resilience. No restrictions on rights, no new costs to individuals, and no private liability shields or carve-outs.
Named in the bill
Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of Energy, Secretary of Energy, Internal Revenue Code Section 40B(d), Department of Energy Organization Act Section 205
Where it stands
6 cosponsors: 5 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Jul 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $341,237 in lobbying spend. A filing names 7 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Mike Flood, the sponsor, reported $1,190,756 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Clean Fuels Alliance America F/k/a National Biodiesel Board — $341,237 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 15, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,787 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 Dec 2025. 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 Jan 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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