Expressing the sense of Congress that hydropower is an essential renewable resource and the United States should protect existing hydropower resources.

Bill: 117-hconres-15
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2021-02-05
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality

Alternative and renewable resources

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Energy storage, supplies, demand
Latest action: action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This concurrent resolution urges the United States to protect existing hydropower resources and increase substantially the capacity and generation of clean, renewable hydropower resources. In addition, it expresses the sense of Congress that hydropower is a renewable resource for purposes of all federal programs.</p>

tv_txt: IV 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. CON. RES. 15 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 5, 2021 Mrs. Rodgers of Washington (for herself, Mr. Newhouse , Ms. Herrera Beutler , Mr. Fulcher , and Mr. Simpson ) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of Congress that hydropower is an essential renewable resource and the United States should protect existing hydropower resources.

That is the sense of the Congress that— (1) hydropower is a renewable resource for purposes of all Federal programs and is an essential source of energy in the United States; and (2) the United States should protect existing hydropower resources and increase substantially the capacity and generation of clean, renewable hydropower resources to address a changing climate and improve environmental quality in the United States.