Bill would stop climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.
H.R. 8330 — Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 · Filed by Harriet Hageman (R-WY) · 23 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 16, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill would ban states and people from suing fossil fuel companies. It would end all climate lawsuits already in court. It would cancel state laws that hold energy companies liable. The bill says only the federal government can make greenhouse gas rules.
Who it affects
Citizens lose the right to sue energy companies for climate harm. States lose power to make their own climate liability laws. Fossil fuel companies would be protected from lawsuits.
One thing to notice
The bill stops all pending climate lawsuits right away. It removes state climate laws. It does not set up a federal way for people to get money for climate harm.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
23 cosponsors: 23 Republicans.
- Apr 16, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 16, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
7 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 7 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $5,934,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 10 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 86% of bills with any report.
Harriet Hageman, who sponsored the bill, received $646,073 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Petroleum Institute — $2,780,000 in 1 report
- Koch Government Affairs, LLC — $2,760,000 in 1 report
- Pbf Holding Company LLC — $200,000 in 1 report
- Sierra Club — $100,000 in 1 report
- Earthjustice — $54,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- fossil fuel companies — Businesses that dig up or sell coal, oil, and natural gas.
- greenhouse gas — Gas released when fossil fuels burn; traps heat in air.
- liable — Legally responsible for harm or damage caused.
- pending — Still waiting to be decided in court.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 9, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 Jun 2026 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 23, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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