H.R. 6116 · Where this bill is now
In committee
Introduced in the House, sent to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Nov 18, 2025
What this bill does
In plain words · AI-written from the official summaryFracking operations must test for drinking water contamination
When companies drill for oil, gas, or geothermal energy using hydraulic fracturing (a process that injects pressurized water and chemicals into the ground to crack rock), this bill would require them to test and report whether the process contaminates nearby underground drinking water sources. States would need to adopt these testing and reporting rules to maintain their authority over underground injection programs. The EPA would create a public database so anyone can search the testing results.
How it affects you
If you live near fracking operations, this bill could give you visibility into whether drilling is affecting your area's underground drinking water. People who depend on groundwater for drinking or other uses would have access to testing information that companies discover. However, the bill does not apply in areas where there's no accessible drinking water source within a mile of the drilling site.
Read the official summary (Introduced in House, Nov 18, 2025)
Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2025
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.
Written by AI (Claude) using only the official summary by the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress’s nonpartisan research staff. It can miss nuance, so check the official summary and the bill text for details.
1st SessionH. R. 6116
A BILL
Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2025
Sponsor: Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9) · Introduced Nov 18, 2025 · Environmental Protection · 1 version of the text
Sources: Congress.gov actions and votes · bill text from GovInfo · latest official action Nov 18, 2025: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.”