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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6316 
To help increase the development, distribution, and use of clean cookstoves 
and fuels to improve health, protect the climate and environment, em-
power women, create jobs, and help consumers save time and money. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 16, 2021 
Mr. NEGUSE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Energy 
and Commerce, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Cooking Support 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Almost 3,000,000,000 people, representing 
more than one-third of the global population, rely on 
open fires or inefficient, polluting, and unsafe cook-
stoves using wood, charcoal, kerosene, agricultural 
waste, animal dung, coal, or other fuels. The major-
ity of people using these types of cookstoves and 
fuels are in developing countries in Asia, Africa, and 
Latin America. 
(2) Smoke from the use of traditional cook-
stoves and open fires contribute to household air pol-
lution that causes illnesses that disproportionately 
affect women and young children. Such illnesses in-
clude low birth weight, pneumonia, cardiovascular 
disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung 
cancer, and other respiratory illnesses. 
(3) The household air pollution caused by tradi-
tional cookstoves and open fires claims 4,000,000 
premature deaths annually, including 400,000 chil-
dren younger than 5 years of age, most of whom live 
in sub-Saharan Africa. Household air pollution does 
not remain in the home and contributes to more 
than 10 percent of global ambient air pollution. In 
some countries, such as Nepal, household air pollu-
tion contributes to more than 30 percent of ambient 
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air pollution. In 2019, more than 600,000 deaths 
were attributed to ambient air pollution stemming 
from the household combustion of solid fuels. 
(4) According to the World Health Organiza-
tion, the large-scale use of wood, charcoal, and ker-
osene for traditional cooking fuel accounts for 1.5– 
3.0 percent of global CO2 emissions, which is a sig-
nificant contributor to air pollution. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to reduce the 
adverse effects of household energy use in its foreign as-
sistance programs and activities, as appropriate, including 
through— 
(1) applied research and development to im-
prove design, lower costs, promote technology adop-
tion, conduct health research and evaluation, and de-
velop global industry standards and testing protocols 
for cookstoves and fuels to help ensure minimum 
standards for efficiency and emissions to lower 
health and environmental impacts; 
(2) diplomatic engagement to encourage a com-
mercial market for clean cookstoves and fuels, re-
duce trade barriers, promote consumer awareness, 
improve access to large-scale carbon financing and 
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other investment, and foster women-owned busi-
nesses along the entire business value chain; 
(3) international development projects to help 
build commercial businesses to manufacture, market, 
distribute, sell, and service clean cookstoves and 
fuels; 
(4) development efforts related to refugee 
camps, disaster relief, and long-term humanitarian 
and empowerment programs aimed at assisting 
women, girls, and other vulnerable populations; 
(5) financing or insurance to support projects 
that provide access to clean, affordable energy and 
energy savings through the manufacture, sale, and 
purchase of clean cookstoves and fuels; 
(6) dissemination of cookstove standards to 
lower environmental and health impacts associated 
with cook stoves through the International Organiza-
tion for Standardization process for household, insti-
tutional, or commercial use; and 
(7) political engagement with low-to-middle-in-
come countries to include cookstove and household 
energy emission reduction goals in their Nationally 
Determined Contributions (NDCs), guidance on im-
plementation of the NDCs, and monitoring and 
verification frameworks. 
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SEC. 4. CLEAN COOKING INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State and the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development shall jointly establish the 
Clean Cooking Interagency Working Group (referred to in 
this section as the ‘‘Working Group’’), consisting of rep-
resentatives from the Department of Energy, the National 
Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, and 
any other Federal agency that the Secretary and the Ad-
ministrator may designate to assist with overseeing the 
planning, management, and coordination of initiatives to 
increase the number of clean cookstoves and fuels world-
wide. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Working Group shall— 
(1) establish goals and priorities for increasing 
the number of clean cookstoves and fuels worldwide; 
and 
(2) provide for interagency coordination, includ-
ing budget coordination, of activities under this Act. 
(c) GOVERNANCE.—The Secretary of State and the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, or their designees, shall serve as 
co-chairs of the Working Group. 
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(d) MEETINGS.—Members of the Working Group 
shall meet not later than 90 days after the Working Group 
is established pursuant to subsection (a), and quarterly 
thereafter, to carry out the responsibilities described in 
subsection (b). 
SEC. 5. CLEAN COOKING PROGRAM. 
(a) DEPARTMENT OF STATE; UNITED STATES AGEN-
CY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.—The Secretary 
of State and the Administrator of the United States Agen-
cy for International Development shall work with the 
Clean Cooking Alliance, founded in 2010— 
(1) to engage in a wide range of diplomatic ac-
tivities, including with countries across the globe and 
with United States embassies abroad, to support ac-
tivities of the Clean Cooking Alliance and the clean 
cookstoves and fuels sector; 
(2) to continue the clean cooking initiatives 
supported by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, 
an intergovernmental organization formed in 2012, 
to reduce emissions of climate pollutants; 
(3) to advance programs that support the adop-
tion of affordable cookstoves that require less fuel to 
meet household energy needs and release fewer pol-
lutants, as a means to improve health, reduce envi-
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ronmental degradation, mitigate climate change, fos-
ter economic growth, and empower women; and 
(4) to carry out other activities authorized 
under this Act. 
(b) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.—The Secretary of 
Energy shall work with the Clean Cooking Alliance— 
(1) to conduct research to spur development of 
low-cost, low-emission, high-efficiency cookstoves 
through research in areas such as combustion, heat 
transfer, and materials development; 
(2) to conduct research to spur development of 
low-emission, high-efficiency energy sources; 
(3) to support innovative small businesses in 
the United States that are developing advanced 
cookstoves and improved cookstove assessment de-
vices; and 
(4) to carry out other activities authorized 
under this Act. 
(c) NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH.—The Direc-
tor of the National Institutes of Health shall work with 
the Clean Cooking Alliance— 
(1) to support health research and training to 
improve the health and lives of those at risk from 
household burning of solid fuels, including— 
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(A) dedicated resources for research on 
household air pollution to ensure adoption of 
life-saving interventions and policy formulation; 
and 
(B) regional network research and training 
hubs in global environmental health and occu-
pational health with a household air pollution 
focus; and 
(2) to carry out other activities authorized 
under this Act. 
(d) CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVEN-
TION.—The Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention shall work with the Clean Cooking Alli-
ance— 
(1) to evaluate cookstove and fuel programs to 
better understand their public health benefits and 
key determinants of adoption; 
(2) to promote a better understanding of the re-
lationship between human exposures and health out-
comes from the use of rudimentary cookstoves and 
open fires; and 
(3) to carry out other activities authorized 
under this Act. 
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(e) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.—The 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall work with the Clean Cooking Alliance— 
(1) to conduct cookstove and fuel testing and 
evaluation in the lab and in the field, including by— 
(A) evaluating energy efficiency and air 
pollutant emissions that impact human health 
and the environment; 
(B) building the capacity of regional stove 
testing and knowledge centers around the 
world; and 
(C) developing international standards re-
garding fuel use, emissions, and safety of cook-
stoves and fuels; 
(2) to conduct climate, health, and air quality 
research, including with United States institutions of 
higher education, regarding the air quality and cli-
matic benefits of interventions for cookstoves and 
residential burning, and to continue the clean cook-
ing initiatives supported by the Climate and Clean 
Air Coalition to reduce emissions of climate pollut-
ants; 
(3) to provide technical and policy expertise and 
to help the Clean Cooking Alliance align with ongo-
ing international efforts in the field; and 
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(4) to carry out other activities authorized 
under this Act. 
(f) OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Other Federal 
agencies may engage with the Clean Cooking Alliance or 
other agencies, as appropriate, to further the policy de-
scribed in section 3. 
SEC. 6. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term ‘‘ap-
propriate congressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate; 
(2) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; 
(3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(4) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after, the President shall submit a report to the appro-
priate congressional committees that describes the 
progress made to further the policy described in section 
3. 
(c) INFORMATION INCLUDED IN REPORTS.—Each re-
port submitted pursuant to subsection (b) shall include— 
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(1) the indicators used by the Department of 
State and each Federal agency participating in the 
interagency working group established pursuant to 
section 4(a) to monitor and evaluate the progress 
made by each such agency to further the policy de-
scribed in section 3; 
(2) data pertaining to populations served in 
United States Government-funded cookstoves and 
fuels programming; 
(3) information regarding United States Gov-
ernment investments in clean cookstoves and fuels 
programming, including funding that has been 
planned, appropriated, obligated, or expended during 
the most recently concluded fiscal year and cumula-
tively for the 5 most recently concluded fiscal years; 
and 
(4) information regarding the progress made to-
ward increasing collaboration among Federal agen-
cies to further the policy described in section 3, in-
cluding interagency research efforts and collabora-
tion with international research partners. 
(d) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The President shall 
make the report required under subsection (b) available 
to the public. 
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SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
years 2022 through 2027 such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out this Act. 
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