Environment & Energy Congressional Round-Up | June 29 - July 3, 2026

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July 6, 2026

Highlights:

The House passed the Securing Community Upgrades for a Resilient (SECURE) Grid Act (H.R.7257) to safeguard the country’s energy infrastructure. Reps. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) and Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) reintroduced the bill to require states to assess electric grid vulnerabilities to extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and cyber threats in their respective State Energy Security Plans. To learn more about grid resilience solutions, check out EESI’s briefing, Powering Up: Improving Energy Grid Reliability and Resilience to Lower Energy Bills.

The House passed the Energy Emergency Leadership Act (H.R.7258). Reps. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), and Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) reintroduced the bill to strengthen the Department of Energy’s capacity to respond to energy emergencies and cybersecurity across the U.S. electric grid. To learn more about grid resilience, check out EESI’s briefing, Generation Innovation, Grid Optimization, and Energy Efficiency.

The House passed the Energy Threat Analysis Center Act of 2026 (H.R.7305). The bill, introduced by Reps. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) and Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), aims to reauthorize and strengthen the Department of Energy's Energy Threat Analysis Center through 2031. The Center is a public-private partnership that helps to identify, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity threats to U.S. energy systems. 

The House passed the Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act (H.R.7266). Reps. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Ind.) introduced the bill to reauthorize and strengthen the Department of Energy’s Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program, which helps defend rural and municipal electric utilities against cybersecurity threats to U.S. grid.

Reps. Cleo Fields (D-La.), Troy Carter (D-La.), Mike Ezell (R-Miss.), and Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) reintroduced the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Premium Transparency Act (H.R. 9511). The bill would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide increased transparency in how they determine policy holders’ NFIP premiums and outline steps for reducing these costs. To learn more, check out EESI’s article on the latest updates to the NFIP. 

 

To catch up on all of the recent environmental and energy legislation in Congress, read the pdf here.