Companies that use hydraulic fracturing ("fracking" — injecting fluid underground at high pressure to extract oil or gas) are not currently required to test nearby drinking water sources before or after operations. The Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2025 would require companies to test underground drinking water sources within a half-mile of any fracking site — before drilling begins, every six months while operations are active, and annually for five years after they stop. Test results must be submitted to the EPA within two weeks and will be added to a public database searchable by ZIP code so anyone can look up whether fracking is occurring near their water supply. The testing requirement does not apply if there is no accessible drinking water source within one mile of the site.
Congressional Summary
This bill requires hydraulic fracturing operations to test for and report on underground sources of drinking water that are contaminated by such operations. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation.Specifically, this bill modifies requirements governing state underground injection control programs. In order to obtain primary enforcement responsibility for such programs, states must prohibit the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities unless the hydraulic fracturing operations agree to test for and report on contamination of drinking water.Hydraulic fracturing operations are exempted from those testing and reporting requirements if there is no accessible underground source of drinking water within a radius of one mile of the site where the operations occur.The Environmental Protection Agency must establish and maintain a publicly accessible and searchable database of the testing results.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-11-18
- Date Added
- 2026-04-10
- Source
- Congress.gov →
Like reading a bill in plain English?
We're building an app that does this for every bill in Congress and lets you tell your reps how you want them to vote. We're a small team getting ready to launch, and we're trying to show investors that real people want this. Be one of them. Help us get it built. Leave your email and we'll tell you the moment the app is ready.