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H.R. 1902: Protect Our Public Lands Act

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H.R. 1902: Protect Our Public Lands Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-04-21 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-04-21 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Protect Our Public Lands Act

Plain summary

Protect Our Public Lands Act This bill amends the Mineral Leasing Act to require a lease on public land for developing deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas, and other hydrocarbons to prohibit a lessee from conducting hydraulic fracturing activity under the lease. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation. The bill excludes from hydraulic fracturing any enhanced secondary recovery, including water flooding, tertiary recovery, and other types of well stimulation operations. The bill is applicable only upon the renewal or adjustment of a lease.

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Official text

Protect Our Public Lands Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] · 38 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] reported raising $1.0 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr1902 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114