Ania Camargo Cortes surveys the U.S. policy environment shaping geothermal energy networks, part of MIT's IAP 2025 short course RES.ENV-007, Geothermal Energy Networks: Transforming Our Thermal Energy System, taught with the nonprofit HEET. She walks through how federal and state regulation, utility business models, and emerging incentive structures are adapting to networked geothermal systems, which share boreholes and pipes across multiple buildings rather than serving a single property. The talk covers how existing gas utility frameworks are being reinterpreted or amended to accommodate thermal utilities, citing specific legislative and regulatory shifts moving through state governments. It situates geothermal networks within the broader push to decarbonize heating and cooling, noting where policy is keeping pace with the technology and where gaps remain. The session is short and focused, aimed at viewers already familiar with the engineering basics from earlier sessions in the course, concentrating entirely on the regulatory and legal landscape rather than system design.