This bill prohibits the President from declaring a ban on hydraulic fracturing unless Congress allows it. It ensures that states remain in charge of regulating this practice on their lands.
Protecting American Energy Production Act This bill prohibits the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy (authority) for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands. 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 formation.