Markup of H.R. 8330, the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026, and Other Legislation

House Judiciary Committee
2141 Rayburn

09/16/2026 at 10:00AM

Full committee markup.

Text of Legislation

  • H.R. 2442, the Freedom from Unfair Gun Taxes Act of 2025 (Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute)
  • H.R. 9298, the Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act (ANS)
  • H.R. 9503, the Officer Leslie Coffelt U.S. Secret Service Police Act (ANS)
  • H.R. 3342, the BOP Direct-Hire Authority Act (ANS)
  • H.R. 10335, the Restoring Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Act of 2026 (ANS)
  • H.R. 9834, the No Racketeers on our Shores Act (ANS)
  • H.R. 8330, the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 (ANS), to forbid all state and local climate-damages lawsuits and climate-damages laws that target the fossil-fuel industry (Hageman R-Wyo.)

H.R. 8330 would grant the fossil-fuel industry, including companies, executives, trade associations, and states or localities, immunity from climate-related laws and lawsuits. “Energy” is defined exclusively as “crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, or coal”.

The bill would prohibit any lawsuit, state law, regulation, or ordinance that seeks or requires damages, injunctive or declaratory relief, abatement, restitution, equitable relief, or compensatory payments from, or otherwise exposes to liability, any person engaged in the fossil-fuel business that the law, regulation, or ordinance deems, either directly or through an administrative process, responsible for costs or harms resulting directly or indirectly from climate change, including because of marketing, misrepresentation, failure to warn, or any other speech.

The legislation is opposed by the No Immunity for Big Oil coalition.