Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2025 CLEANER Act of 2025

I 119TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 6080 To require regulation of wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOVEMBER 18, 2025 Ms. C ASTOR of Florida (for herself, Mr. B EYER, Mr. C ARSON, Mr. C ASTEN, Ms. C LARKE of New York, Mr. C OHEN, Ms. D EGETTE, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. H UFFMAN, Ms. J AYAPAL, Mr. K HANNA, Mr. M CGOV- ERN, Ms. M ENG, Mr. M ORELLE, Ms. N ORTON, Mr. P OCAN, Ms. S CHA- KOWSKY, Mr. S HERMAN, Ms. S IMON, Mr. S MITH of Washington, Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. T LAIB, and Mr. V ARGAS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To require regulation of wastes associated with the explo- ration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy under the Solid Waste Dis- posal Act, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘CLEANER Act of 4 2025’’ or the ‘‘Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary 5 and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2025’’. 6 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:11 Nov 24, 2025 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6080.IH H6080ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 6080 IH SEC. 2. REGULATION OF WASTES ASSOCIATED WITH THE 1 EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, OR PRODUC-2 TION OF CRUDE OIL, NATURAL GAS, OR GEO-3 THERMAL ENERGY UNDER THE SOLID WASTE 4 DISPOSAL ACT. 5 (a) I DENTIFICATION OR LISTING, AND REGULATION 6 UNDER SUBTITLE C.—Paragraph (2) of section 3001(b) 7 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6921(b)) is 8 amended to read as follows: 9 ‘‘(2) Not later than 1 year after the date of enact-10 ment of the CLEANER Act of 2025, the Administrator 11 shall— 12 ‘‘(A) determine whether drilling fluids, pro-13 duced waters, and other wastes associated with the 14 exploration, development, or production of crude oil, 15 natural gas, or geothermal energy meet the criteria 16 promulgated under this section for the identification 17 or listing of hazardous waste; 18 ‘‘(B) identify or list as hazardous waste any 19 drilling fluids, produced waters, or other wastes as-20 sociated with the exploration, development, or pro-21 duction of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal en-22 ergy that the Administrator determines, pursuant to 23 subparagraph (A), meet the criteria promulgated 24 under this section for the identification or listing of 25 hazardous waste; and 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:11 Nov 24, 2025 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6080.IH H6080ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 6080 IH ‘‘(C) promulgate regulations under sections 1 3002, 3003, and 3004 for wastes identified or listed 2 as hazardous waste pursuant to subparagraph (B), 3 except that the Administrator is authorized to mod-4 ify the requirements of such sections to take into ac-5 count the special characteristics of such wastes so 6 long as such modified requirements protect human 7 health and the environment.’’. 8 (b) R EGULATION UNDER SUBTITLE D.—Section 9 4010(c) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 10 6949a(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following 11 new paragraph: 12 ‘‘(7) D RILLING FLUIDS , PRODUCED WATERS , 13 AND OTHER WASTES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXPLO -14 RATION, DEVELOPMENT, OR PRODUCTION OF CRUDE 15 OIL, NATURAL GAS , OR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY .—Not 16 later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the 17 CLEANER Act of 2025, the Administrator shall 18 promulgate revisions of the criteria promulgated 19 under section 4004(a) and under section 1008(a)(3) 20 for facilities that may receive drilling fluids, pro-21 duced waters, or other wastes associated with the ex-22 ploration, development, or production of crude oil, 23 natural gas, or geothermal energy, that are not iden-24 tified or listed as hazardous waste pursuant to sec-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:11 Nov 24, 2025 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H6080.IH H6080ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 6080 IH tion 3001(b)(2). The criteria shall be those nec-1 essary to protect human health and the environment 2 and may take into account the practicable capability 3 of such facilities. At a minimum such revisions for 4 facilities potentially receiving such wastes should re-5 quire ground water monitoring as necessary to de-6 tect contamination, establish criteria for the accept-7 able location of new or existing facilities, and provide 8 for corrective action and financial assurance as ap-9 propriate.’’. 10 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:11 Nov 24, 2025 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H6080.IH H6080ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS