The DRILL Now Act limits the regulatory power of three interstate river commissions—the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, the Delaware River Basin Commission, and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin—by preventing them from issuing or enforcing rules about hydraulic fracturing (the process of injecting fluid into rock to extract oil and natural gas). Instead, the bill requires that any hydraulic fracturing regulations in these river basins be controlled solely by individual states, overriding the multistate compacts that currently govern these waterways. The bill affects natural gas and oil development in Pennsylvania and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region, where the Marcellus Shale formation has significant natural gas deposits. The legislation was introduced by Pennsylvania House members in February 2025 and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, but includes no specific funding amounts or implementation timeline.
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