A bill to amend Public Law 117-169 to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using funds for methane monitoring to be used to monitor emissions of methane from livestock, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-4850
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2022-09-14
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Latest action: action_date: 2022-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-09-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from using funding for monitoring methane emissions provided under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to monitor methane emissions from livestock.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4850 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 14, 2022 Mr. Thune (for himself and Ms. Ernst ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works A BILL To amend Public Law 117–169 to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using funds for methane monitoring to be used to monitor emissions of methane from livestock, and for other purposes.

1. Methane monitoring Section 60105(e) of Public Law 117–169 is amended— (1) by striking In addition to and inserting the following: (1) In general In addition to ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (2) Prohibition Amounts made available under paragraph (1) may not be used to monitor emissions of methane from livestock. .