PTF’s Energy Priorities for Congress’s Final Weeks
This week, Power The Future (PTF) released our five energy priorities for the remaining weeks of the 119th Congress. The list prioritizes ending climate lawsuits, protecting permitted pipelines from political cancellation, and rejecting the natural gas tax for good.
“This Congress has a few weeks left and it needs every one of them, because if lawmakers go home without finishing the job, they’re leaving America’s energy policy to the Green New Deal zealots,” said PTF founder and Executive Director Daniel Turner. “The next Congress will work overtime to turn taxpayer dollars into a never-ending cash flow of failure toward green projects. Lawmakers need to finish the job to protect American energy dominance.”
Power The Future’s priorities include:
Passing the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act (H.R. 8330/ S. 4340). Congress should be setting America’s energy policy, not blue-state judges and want-to-be activist lawyers.
The bill ends climate lawsuits and state “climate superfund” laws that could cost families up to $2,111 a year.
Protect permitted energy projects, including the Alaska pipeline. Biden killed the roughly $8 billion Keystone XL with just one signature, and the $44.5–54.5 billion Alaska LNG project cannot be next.
Pass legislation requiring judges who attend trainings paid for by advocacy groups to disclose who ran those trainings and who is funding them. Today that is only an internal judiciary policy, not law. The Climate Judiciary Project trained judges who hear climate cases, and the public deserves to know who was responsible.
Repeal the natural gas tax for good (S. 143 / H.R. 313). Congress killed Biden’s natural gas tax rule, but the law behind it is still on the books for a future EPA to revive, and families will pay. Repealing it now means they never will.
Claw back unspent green grants. Taxpayers paid for Biden-era green programs that went largely unmonitored, including more than $836 million in Clean School Bus funds.
Congress needs to take back what hasn’t been spent before a new majority sends it out the door.
November 12, 2026