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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 3233 

To help increase the development, distribution, and use of clean cookstoves 

and fuels to improve health, protect the climate and environment, empower women, create jobs, and help consumers save time and money. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 18, 2021 

Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. DURBIN) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

A BILL 

To help increase the development, distribution, and use of 

clean cookstoves and fuels to improve health, protect 

the climate and environment, empower women, create 

jobs, and help consumers save time and money. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Cooking Support 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress makes the following findings: 


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1 (1) Almost 3,000,000,000 people, representing 

2 more than one-third of the global population, rely on 

3 open fires or inefficient, polluting, and unsafe cook4 stoves using wood, charcoal, kerosene, agricultural 

5 waste, animal dung, coal, or other fuels. The major6 ity of people using these types of cookstoves and 

7 fuels are in developing countries in Asia, Africa, and 

8 Latin America. 

9 (2) Smoke from the use of traditional cook10 stoves and open fires contribute to household air pol11 lution that causes illnesses that disproportionately 

12 affect women and young children. Such illnesses in13 clude low birth weight, pneumonia, cardiovascular 

14 disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung 

15 cancer, and other respiratory illnesses. 

16 (3) The household air pollution caused by tradi17 tional cookstoves and open fires claims 4,000,000 

18 premature deaths annually, including 400,000 chil19 dren younger than 5 years of age, most of whom live 

20 in sub-Saharan Africa. Household air pollution does 

21 not remain in the home and contributes to more 

22 than 10 percent of global ambient air pollution. In 

23 some countries, such as Nepal, household air pollu24 tion contributes to more than 30 percent of ambient 

25 air pollution. In 2019, more than 600,000 deaths 


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1 were attributed to ambient air pollution stemming 

2 from the household combustion of solid fuels. 

3 (4) According to the World Health Organiza4 tion, the large-scale use of wood, charcoal, and ker5 osene for traditional cooking fuel accounts for 1.5– 

6 3.0 percent of global CO2 emissions, which is a sig7 nificant contributor to air pollution. 

8 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 

9 It is the policy of the United States to reduce the 

10 adverse effects of household energy use in its foreign as11 sistance programs and activities, as appropriate, including 

12 through— 

13 (1) applied research and development to im14 prove design, lower costs, promote technology adop15 tion, conduct health research and evaluation, and de16 velop global industry standards and testing protocols 

17 for cookstoves and fuels to help ensure minimum 

18 standards for efficiency and emissions to lower 

19 health and environmental impacts; 

20 (2) diplomatic engagement to encourage a com21 mercial market for clean cookstoves and fuels, re22 duce trade barriers, promote consumer awareness, 

23 improve access to large-scale carbon financing and 

24 other investment, and foster women-owned busi25 nesses along the entire business value chain; 


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1 (3) international development projects to help 

2 build commercial businesses to manufacture, market, 

3 distribute, sell, and service clean cookstoves and 

4 fuels; 

5 (4) development efforts related to refugee 

6 camps, disaster relief, and long-term humanitarian 

7 and empowerment programs aimed at assisting 

8 women, girls, and other vulnerable populations; 

9 (5) financing or insurance to support projects 

10 that provide access to clean, affordable energy and 

11 energy savings through the manufacture, sale, and 

12 purchase of clean cookstoves and fuels; 

13 (6) dissemination of cookstove standards to 

14 lower environmental and health impacts associated 

15 with cook stoves through the International Organiza16 tion for Standardization process for household, insti17 tutional, or commercial use; and 

18 (7) political engagement with low-to-middle-in19 come countries to include cookstove and household 

20 energy emission reduction goals in their Nationally 

21 Determined Contributions (NDCs), guidance on im22 plementation of the NDCs, and monitoring and 

23 verification frameworks. 


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1 SEC. 4. CLEAN COOKING INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP. 

2 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 

3 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 

4 State and the Administrator of the United States Agency 

5 for International Development shall jointly establish the 

6 Clean Cooking Interagency Working Group (referred to in 

7 this section as the ‘‘Working Group’’), consisting of rep8 resentatives from the Department of Energy, the National 

9 Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and 

10 Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, and 

11 any other Federal agency that the Secretary and the Ad12 ministrator may designate to assist with overseeing the 

13 planning, management, and coordination of initiatives to 

14 increase the number of clean cookstoves and fuels world15 wide. 

16 (b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Working Group shall— 

17 (1) establish goals and priorities for increasing 

18 the number of clean cookstoves and fuels worldwide; 

19 and 

20 (2) provide for interagency coordination, includ21 ing budget coordination, of activities under this Act. 

22 (c) GOVERNANCE.—The Secretary of State and the 

23 Administrator of United States Agency for International 

24 Development, or their designees, shall serve as co-chairs 

25 of the Working Group. 


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1 (d) MEETINGS.—Members of the Working Group 

2 shall meet not later than 90 days after the Working Group 

3 is established pursuant to subsection (a), and quarterly 

4 thereafter, to carry out the responsibilities described in 

5 subsection (b). 

6 SEC. 5. CLEAN COOKING PROGRAM. 

7 (a) DEPARTMENT OF STATE; UNITED STATES AGEN8 CY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.—The Secretary 

9 of State and the Administrator of the United States Agen10 cy for International Development shall work with the 

11 Clean Cooking Alliance, founded in 2010— 

12 (1) to engage in a wide range of diplomatic ac13 tivities, including with countries across the globe and 

14 with United States embassies abroad, to support ac15 tivities of the Clean Cooking Alliance and the clean 

16 cookstoves and fuels sector; 

17 (2) to continue the clean cooking initiatives 

18 supported by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, 

19 an intergovernmental organization formed in 2012, 

20 to reduce emissions of climate pollutants; 

21 (3) to advance programs that support the adop22 tion of affordable cookstoves that require less fuel to 

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1 ronmental degradation, mitigate climate change, fos2 ter economic growth, and empower women; and 

3 (4) to carry out other activities authorized 

4 under this Act. 

5 (b) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.—The Secretary of 

6 Energy shall work with the Clean Cooking Alliance— 

7 (1) to conduct research to spur development of 

8 low-cost, low-emission, high-efficiency cookstoves 

9 through research in areas such as combustion, heat 

10 transfer, and materials development; 

11 (2) to conduct research to spur development of 

12 low-emission, high-efficiency energy sources; 

13 (3) to support innovative small businesses in 

14 the United States that are developing advanced 

15 cookstoves and improved cookstove assessment de16 vices; and 

17 (4) to carry out other activities authorized 

18 under this Act. 

19 (c) NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH.—The Direc20 tor of the National Institutes of Health shall work with 

21 the Clean Cooking Alliance— 

22 (1) to support health research and training to 

23 improve the health and lives of those at risk from 

24 household burning of solid fuels, including— 


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1 (A) dedicated resources for research on 

2 household air pollution to ensure adoption of 

3 life-saving interventions and policy formulation; 

4 and 

5 (B) regional network research and training 

6 hubs in global environmental health and occu7 pational health with a household air pollution 

8 focus; and 

9 (2) to carry out other activities authorized 

10 under this Act. 

11 (d) CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVEN12 TION.—The Director of the Centers for Disease Control 

13 and Prevention shall work with the Clean Cooking Alli14 ance— 

15 (1) to evaluate cookstove and fuel programs to 

16 better understand their public health benefits and 

17 key determinants of adoption; 

18 (2) to promote a better understanding of the re19 lationship between human exposures and health out20 comes from the use of rudimentary cookstoves and 

21 open fires; and 

22 (3) to carry out other activities authorized 

23 under this Act. 


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1 (e) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.—The 

2 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 

3 shall work with the Clean Cooking Alliance— 

4 (1) to conduct cookstove and fuel testing and 

5 evaluation in the lab and in the field, including by— 

6 (A) evaluating energy efficiency and air 

7 pollutant emissions that impact human health 

8 and the environment; 

9 (B) building the capacity of regional stove 

10 testing and knowledge centers around the 

11 world; and 

12 (C) developing international standards re13 garding fuel use, emissions, and safety of cook14 stoves and fuels; 

15 (2) to conduct climate, health, and air quality 

16 research, including with United States institutions of 

17 higher education, regarding the air quality and cli18 matic benefits of interventions for cookstoves and 

19 residential burning, and to continue the clean cook20 ing initiatives supported by the Climate and Clean 

21 Air Coalition to reduce emissions of climate pollut22 ants; 

23 (3) to provide technical and policy expertise and 

24 to help the Clean Cooking Alliance align with ongo25 ing international efforts in the field; and 


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1 (4) to carry out other activities authorized 

2 under this Act. 

3 (f) OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Other Federal 

4 agencies may engage with the Clean Cooking Alliance or 

5 other agencies, as appropriate, to further the policy de6 scribed in section 3. 

7 SEC. 6. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 

8 (a) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term ‘‘ap9 propriate congressional committees’’ means— 

10 (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 

11 Senate; 

12 (2) the Committee on Appropriations of the 

13 Senate; 

14 (3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 

15 House of Representatives; and 

16 (4) the Committee on Appropriations of the 

17 House of Representatives. 

18 (b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 

19 the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually there20 after, the President shall submit a report to the appro21 priate congressional committees that describes the 

22 progress made to further the policy described in section 

23 3. 

24 (c) INFORMATION INCLUDED IN REPORTS.—Each re25 port submitted pursuant to subsection (b) shall include— 


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1 (1) the indicators used by the Department of 

2 State and each Federal agency participating in the 

3 interagency working group established pursuant to 

4 section 4(a) to monitor and evaluate the progress 

5 made by each such agency to further the policy de6 scribed in section 3; 

7 (2) data pertaining to populations served in 

8 United States Government-funded cookstoves and 

9 fuels programming; 

10 (3) information regarding United States Gov11 ernment investments in clean cookstoves and fuels 

12 programming, including funding that has been 

13 planned, appropriated, obligated, or expended during 

14 the most recently concluded fiscal year and cumula15 tively for the 5 most recently concluded fiscal years; 

16 and 

17 (4) information regarding the progress made to18 ward increasing collaboration among Federal agen19 cies to further the policy described in section 3, in20 cluding interagency research efforts and collabora21 tion with international research partners. 

22 (d) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The President shall 

23 make the report required under subsection (b) available 

24 to the public. 


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1 SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

2 There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 

3 years 2022 through 2027 such sums as may be necessary 

4 to carry out this Act. 

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