Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act

This bill replaces the presidential-permit system for energy facilities that cross the U.S. border with a faster agency-permit process. Instead of a Presidential permit, anyone building or operating a pipeline or electric line that crosses an international border would need a "certificate of crossing." The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issues it for oil and gas pipelines and the Secretary of Energy for electric lines, and the agency must issue it within 120 days after environmental review concludes unless it finds the project is not in the public interest. Cross-border electric projects must meet reliability standards. The bill states that no Presidential permit is required for these facilities, and it bars the President from revoking existing Presidential permits issued under listed executive orders unless Congress authorizes it. It directs FERC to approve natural gas import or export applications involving Canada or Mexico within 30 days, and it repeals the Federal Power Act requirement to obtain a federal order before exporting electricity to Canada or Mexico, with conforming changes. Projects already operating, already permitted, or with a pending permit application are excluded, as are modifications to existing facilities. The changes take effect one year after enactment, with proposed rules due in 180 days and final rules in one year. A border-crossing facility is defined as the portion within 1,000 feet of the border.

At least 23 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 108 quarterly reports filed by 3 lobbying firms and by 21 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA); Itc Holdings Corp; CMS Energy Corp; Edison Electric Institute; Corporate Energy Buyers Association (Fka Clean Energy Buyers Association). Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 18 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

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, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.