A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to consider the objective of improving the conversion, use, and storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels in carrying out research and development programs under that Act.

Bill: 114-s-1282
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2015-05-11
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases

Coal

Energy research

Oil and gas

Research and development
Latest action: action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-05-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Department of Energy to consider the objective of improving the conversion, use, and storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels when carrying out certain research, development, demonstration, and commercial application programs in fossil energy.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1282 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 11, 2015 Mr. Manchin (for himself and Ms. Heitkamp ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to consider the objective of improving the conversion, use, and storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels in carrying out research and development programs under that Act.

1. Fossil energy Section 961(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 16291(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (8) Improving the conversion, use, and storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels. .