Ensuring Affordable Energy Act

Bill: 114-hr-3626
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2015-09-28
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Air quality

Appropriations

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Electric power generation and transmission

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental regulatory procedures

Executive agency funding and structure

Industrial facilities

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2015-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-09-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Ensuring Affordable Energy Act </b></p> <p>This bill prohibits funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from being used to implement or enforce: (1) a cap-and-trade program, or (2) any statutory or regulatory requirement pertaining to emissions of one or more greenhouse gases from stationary sources that is issued or becomes applicable or effective after the date of enactment of this bill.</p> <p>A cap-and-trade program is any regulatory program established after enactment of this bill that provides for the sale, auction, or other distribution of a limited amount of allowances that permit the emission of one or more greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or any other designated anthropogenic gas (caused by human activity).</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3626 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 28, 2015 Mr. Poe of Texas (for himself, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina , Mr. Jones , Mr. Westmoreland , Mr. Cramer , Mr. Olson , Mr. Brooks of Alabama , Mr. Sensenbrenner , Mrs. Black , Mr. Gohmert , and Mr. Latta ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To prohibit funding for the Environmental Protection Agency to be used to implement or enforce a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Affordable Energy Act . 2. Prohibition of funding for cap-and-trade program, and other requirements, for greenhouse gases (a) Prohibition Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds appropriated or otherwise available for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may be used to implement or enforce— (1) a cap-and-trade program; or (2) any statutory or regulatory requirement pertaining to emissions of one or more greenhouse gases from stationary sources that is issued or becomes applicable or effective after the date of enactment of this Act, including— (A) any such requirement under section 111 of the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7411 ) or part C of title I of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7470 et seq. ), including the final rule entitled Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units signed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on August 3, 2015, and any requirement for a State to adopt or submit a plan, or for a State or entity within a State to become subject to a Federal plan, pursuant to such final rule; and (B) any such permitting requirement under the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. ). (b) Definitions In this Act: (1) The term cap-and-trade program means any regulatory program established after the date of enactment of this Act that provides for the sale, auction, or other distribution of a limited amount of allowances that permit the emission of one or more greenhouse gases. (2) The term greenhouse gas includes, with respect to a cap-and-trade program under subsection (a)(1) or a requirement under subsection (a)(2), any of the following: (A) Carbon dioxide. (B) Methane. (C) Nitrous oxide. (D) Sulfur hexafluoride. (E) Hydrofluorocarbons. (F) Perfluorocarbons. (G) Any other anthropogenic gas designated as a greenhouse gas for purposes of such cap-and-trade program or such requirement. (3) The term stationary source has the meaning given such term in section 111(a)(3) of the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7411(a)(3) ).