The Energy Information Administration has decided to stop its emergency survey of bitcoin miners following a temporary restraining order granted to the Texas Blockchain Council, Riot Platforms, the Chamber of Digital Commerce, and the National Civil Liberties Alliance. The Chamber of Digital Commerce stated that if the EIA wants to conduct such surveys in the future, it must follow the necessary legal procedures to allow public input on the survey’s scope before re-issuing it. The Texas Blockchain Council believes they have a solid legal case in the ongoing suit regarding the mining survey. EIA has stopped gathering emergency data for Form EIA-862, the Cryptocurrency Mining Operations Survey. All data obtained during the emergency collection will be deleted according to our agreement. The legal action took place in Texas recently, claiming that Riot and other miners would suffer immediate and irreversible harm if they were obligated to disclose confidential, sensitive, and proprietary information to the EIA. The survey notification was issued in late January, asking miners to provide information about their energy usage. The survey request was approved by the Office of Management and Budget on January. Additionally, the statement made at the time acknowledged that the emergency collection was temporary and still in the testing phase, as the EIA aimed to eventually establish a new standard collection process. The survey was conducted in response to a severe winter in certain parts of the United States. A spokesperson for the EIA stated in early February to Blockworks that due to the evolving and rapidly changing nature of the situation and the inability to accurately measure the risk of public harm, there was an urgent need to gather reliable data to understand this developing issue.