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New England Coastal Protection Act of 2025

To prohibit oil and gas leasing on the outer Continental Shelf off the coast of New England.

Introduced Apr 10, 2025

Latest action (Apr 10, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Referred to
Natural Resources Committee
Policy area
Energy
Issues
Climate & Energy

Summary
  • Prohibits oil and gas leasing on the outer Continental Shelf off the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
  • Prevents the federal government from issuing leases for exploration, development, or production of oil and natural gas in these New England areas.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
13 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Seth Magaziner’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $25,650
  • BLUEWATER WIRELESS $10,900
  • CAPITOL CITY GROUP $9,750
  • MADISON DEARBORN PARTNERS $9,143
  • CORNISH ASSOCIATES $8,200

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Seth Magaziner → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Apr 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
  2. Apr 10, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 2849 — West Coast Ocean Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 81%
  • S 1472 — New England Coastal Protection Act · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • S 1432 — West Coast Ocean Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • HR 2673 — Florida Coastal Protection Act · Introduced Apr 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 2862 — Southern California Coast and Ocean Protection Act · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 2881 — COAST Anti-Drilling Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Apr 10, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 10, 2025

Mr. Magaziner (for himself, Mr. Golden of Maine, Mr. Keating, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Auchincloss, Mr. Himes, Mr. McGovern, and Mr. Neal) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

A BILL

To prohibit oil and gas leasing on the outer Continental Shelf off the coast of New England.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “New England Coastal Protection Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF OIL AND GAS LEASING ON OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OFF COAST OF NEW ENGLAND.

Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(q) Prohibition of Oil and Gas Leasing in Certain Areas of Outer Continental Shelf.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or any other law, the Secretary may not issue a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in any area of the outer Continental Shelf off the coast of the State of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut.”. <all>

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