CLEAR Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Limits repeated litigation over energy-project authorizations and tightens judicial review standards, timelines, and remedies for challenges to those approvals.
Who Benefits and How
Energy project sponsors and federal permitting agencies gain stronger protection against repeated or prolonged litigation over project authorizations.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Opponents of energy projects face tighter filing deadlines, narrower remand remedies, and stronger preclusion rules.
Key Provisions
- Bars repeat litigation over the same energy project once an earlier case has been finally adjudicated.
- Narrows judicial review so courts defer more to agencies and generally leave authorizations in effect during remand.
- Imposes a 150-day filing deadline and comment-participation limits for many legal challenges.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Limits repeated litigation over energy-project authorizations and tightens judicial review standards, timelines, and remedies for challenges to those approvals.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Limits repeated litigation over energy-project authorizations and tightens judicial review standards, timelines, and remedies for challenges to those approvals.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Energy project sponsors
- Federal permitting agencies
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Opponents challenging energy project authorizations
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Opponents challenging energy project authorizations
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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