{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-hageman-introduces-bill-shield-american-energy-producers-leftist-climate", "Rep. Hageman Introduces Bill To\u00a0Shield American Energy Producers From\u00a0Leftist Climate Litigation", "2026-04-17", "2026", "2026-04", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Harriet M. Hageman", "H001096", "hageman.house.gov", "hageman", "https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 to protect American energy from leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.\n\nThe shale revolution unlocked the United States as the world\u2019s leading producer of crude oil and natural gas. U.S. energy dominance has since reinforced America\u2019s diplomatic leverage while driving the domestic economy with the affordable, reliable power that keeps factories, farms, and hospitals operating. States passing so-called \u201cclimate superfund\u201d laws, along with climate liability lawsuits, however, threaten to undermine American energy dominance by litigating producers out of business.\n\nState legislatures and environmental extremists are trying to scapegoat the same producers who keep America running with fines and lawsuits over legal production in the past, lawful activity in the present, and imagined transgressions in the future. The Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 shields America\u2019s energy producers from these relentless attacks, supporting our affordable energy sector, preserving American jobs, and restoring clarity to our nation\u2019s energy policy.\n\n\u201cEnergy security is national security, and we will not self-sabotage our critical industries with a cascade of costly lawsuits and extreme penalties that jeopardize American drilling,\u201d said Rep. Harriet Hageman. \u201cAmerica\u2019s energy producers should be protected from the dangerous legal precedent that would be set by the retroactive punishment of lawful activity.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe thank Senator Cruz and Rep. Hageman for introducing legislation to stop a growing patchwork of state laws and lawsuits that threaten American energy and risk raising costs for consumers,\u201d said American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President and CEO Chet Thompson and American Petroleum Institute (API) President and CEO Mike Sommers in a joint statement. \u201cThese efforts to retroactively penalize companies for lawfully meeting consumer demand are misguided and counterproductive. Congress should act decisively to reaffirm federal authority over national energy policy and end this activist-driven state overreach.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nClimate liability lawsuits seek to hold energy companies financially or criminally liable, while superfund laws are designed to inflict multi-billion-dollar penalties for past emissions and other alleged contributions to \u201cclimate change.\u201d Vermont and New York have both passed \u201cclimate superfund\u201d laws, while legislators in at least 9 other states, including California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Virginia, are considering similar proposals.\n\nThe Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026:", 1, "2026-06-27T21:44:12Z", "2026-06-27T22:19:40Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-hageman-introduces-bill-shield-american-energy-producers-leftist-climate"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6030240803956985, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}