What a yes vote endorsed
CLEAN Act
What this does
The bill amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to speed geothermal leasing and permitting on federal lands. It requires the Secretary of the Interior to hold geothermal lease sales every year rather than every two years, and to hold a replacement sale in the same year whenever a scheduled sale is canceled or delayed. In each sale the Secretary must offer at least 75 percent of the nominated parcels eligible for geothermal development, and must also offer the remaining 25 percent unless the Secretary gives written justification citing a statutory, environmental, or administrative basis. The bill also sets deadlines for geothermal drilling permits, including a 30 day completeness notice, a 30 day decision window after an application is complete, and a 10 day decision once a deferred applicant and the agency finish required steps.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 6 sourced claims
- The bill amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970.Source: Sec. 2
- It requires geothermal lease sales to be held every year rather than every two years.Source: Sec. 2(a)(1)
- If a scheduled lease sale is canceled or delayed, the Secretary must hold a replacement sale in the same year.Source: Sec. 2(a), new paragraph (3)
- In a lease sale the Secretary must offer at least 75 percent of the nominated parcels eligible for geothermal development, and must offer the remaining 25 percent unless the Secretary provides written justification citing a statutory, environmental, or administrative basis.Source: Sec. 2(a), new paragraph (4)
- The bill sets deadlines for geothermal drilling permits, including a 30 day completeness notice and a 30 day decision window after an application is complete, and a 10 day decision after a deferred applicant and the agency finish required steps.Source: Sec. 2(b), new subsection (h)
- The measure is single-subject, confined to geothermal leasing and permitting under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970.Source: Sec. 2
Reported lobbying
At least
9
organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.
A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 23 quarterly reports filed by 9 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking
- CORPORATE ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION
- FERVO ENERGY
- FERVO ENERGY COMPANY
- AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
- NFIB (NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS)
Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 4 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: the extract keeps five names per measure and no ranking is available.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.