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Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2015-11-17 00:00:00

Keeping Oil and Natural Gas Flowing for Consumers Act

This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from proposing, implementing, or enforcing restrictions under the Clean Air Act on methane emissions from: (1) crude oil production; or (2) natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage.

The EPA may not finalize or enforce the proposed rule entitled, "Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New and Modified Sources," which proposes to amend the new source performance standards for oil and gas production by setting standards for methane and volatile organic compounds.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2015-12-03 00:00:00

Fighting Against Imbalanced Regulatory Burdens Act of 2015

 This bill amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit a regulation concerning emissions of carbon dioxide from a fossil fuel-fired electric generating unit from taking effect until the Environmental Protection Agency certifies that a sufficient number of countries have adopted climate change regulations for carbon dioxide that are at least as stringent.

A "sufficient number" is a number of countries that account for at least 80% of global carbon dioxide emissions in the last year, excluding those in the United States.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2015-12-15 00:00:00

This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from establishing or enforcing limits on aggregate carbon dioxide emissions from a state or any categories of pollution sources in a state.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2015-12-16 00:00:00

Clean Air Implementation Act of 2015

This bill amends the Clean Air Act to require the review of national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) in eight year intervals instead of five year intervals.

The EPA may take into account the technological feasibility of attaining NAAQS when revising those NAAQS.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must: (1) report on the extent to which foreign sources of air pollution impact areas trying to achieve or maintain the NAAQS, (2) submit that report within 24 months, and (3) suspend the implementation of the 2015 rule regarding NAAQS for ozone until the EPA submits that report. Deadlines in that rule must be extended for a period that is equal to the amount of time it takes the EPA to submit that report.

The EPA may take into account the technological feasibility of attaining NAAQS when establishing and revising those NAAQS.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-02-11 00:00:00

Energy Sovereignty Act

This bill amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring states to prevent or eliminate air pollution endangering public health or welfare in other countries.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-02-12 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns Act of 2016

(Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring compliance with Clean Air Act rules concerning national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants with respect to brick and structural clay products manufacturing or clay ceramics manufacturing until judicial reviews of the rules are complete.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2016-02-25 00:00:00

Carbon Capture Act 

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration, to: (1) make such credit permanent after 2015; (2) increase such credit after 2024 for a qualified facility originally placed in service after December 31, 2015; (3) allow such credit to a person who disposes of, or uses as a tertiary injectant, the carbon dioxide; and (4) modify the definition of "qualified facility" for purposes of eligibility for such credit to require not less than 150,000 metric tons (currently, 500,000 metric tons) to be captured at such a facility during the taxable year.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-02-25 00:00:00

Compensating Losses to the Environment from Automobiles with Noxious Undisclosed Pollution Act of 2016 or the CLEANUP Act

This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to deny Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)credits to any automobile manufacturer that circumvents emission control requirements to obtain CAFE credits unlawfully. Manufacturers earn CAFE credits when the average fuel economy for a given annualfleet of vehicles exceeds the minimalrequiredCAFE standards.

Additionally, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA)is authorized to collect additional penalties from manufacturers that obtain CAFE credits unlawfully.

The bill also establishes an Air Quality RestorationTrust Fund funded with deposits from penalties NHTSA collects from manufacturers under this bill. The fund must be used solely forproviding grants to support specific programs that restore and improve air quality.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2016-03-02 00:00:00

No Lead in the Air Act of 2016

This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration to issue regulations necessary to prohibit the use of leaded fuel by aircraft operating within U.S. airspace beginning in January 2021.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Energy
Date: 2016-03-03 00:00:00

Advancing CCUS Technology Act

This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to direct the Department of Energy (DOE)to carry out research and developtechnologyto improve the conversion, use, and storage of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. It also revises the program of research and commercial application for coal and power systems to require DOE, during each fiscal year after FY2016, to identify cost and performance goals for technologies allowing large-scale demonstration and the continued cost-competitive commercial use of coal.

DOEmust annually evaluateand make recommendations regarding any project it has entered into with a public or privateentityto developcarbon capture, utilization, and sequestration technologies.

DOE must report to Congress, within two years and every three years thereafter, regarding theprojectevaluations it has conductedand the progress it has made in advancing carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration technologies.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-03-07 00:00:00

Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2016 or the RPM Act of 2016

This bill amends the Clean Air Act to allow the modification of a vehicle's air emission controls if the vehicle is used solely for competition.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-03-17 00:00:00

Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016

This bill amends the Clean Air Act by revising the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) program.

(Sec. 2) The bill delays the implementation of the ozone NAAQS that were published in 2015. The bill extends until: (1) October 26, 2024, the deadline for states to submit designations to implement the 2015 ozone NAAQS; and (2) October 26, 2025, the deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to designate state areas as attainment, nonattainment, or unclassifiable areas with respect to the 2015 ozone NAAQS. States must submit a state implementation plan (SIP) by October 26, 2026, to implement, maintain, and enforce the 2015 ozone NAAQS.

The bill exempts from the 2015 ozone standards certain preconstruction permit applications that were completed or submitted before a final designation was made.

(Sec. 3) The bill also changes the review cycle for criteria pollutant NAAQS from a 5-year review cycle to a 10-year review cycle. The EPA may not complete its next review of ozone NAAQS before October 26, 2025.

The EPA may consider, as a secondary consideration, likely technological feasibility in establishing and revising NAAQS for a pollutant if a range of air quality levels for such pollutant are requisite to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety.

Prior to establishing or revising NAAQS, the EPA must obtain advice from its scientific advisory committee regarding potential adverse public health, welfare, social, economic, or energy effects which may result from attaining and maintaining NAAQS.

The EPA must publish regulations and guidance for implementing NAAQS concurrently with the issuance of a new or revised standard. New or revised NAAQS shall not apply to preconstruction permits for constructing or modifying a stationary source of air pollutants until those regulations and guidance have been published.

The bill provides that in Extreme Ozone Nonattainment Areas, contingency measures are not required to be included in nonattainment plans. Technological achievability and economic feasibility must be taken into consideration in plan revisions for milestones for particulate matter nonattainment areas.

The bill redefines "exceptional events," by including stagnation of air masses that are not ordinarily occurring.

The EPA must: (1) report on foreign emissions and their impact on compliance with the NAAQS program in the United States, (2) study and report on the atmospheric formation of ozone and effective control strategies, and (3) incorporate the results of the study into rules and guidance implementing the 2015 ozone standards.

(Sec. 5) The bill specifies that no additional funds are authorized for carrying out the requirements of this bill.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-04-21 00:00:00

Clean Air and Vehicle Technology Accountability Act of 2016

This bill amends the Clean Air Act to establish criminal penalties for any person who:

 prior to the sale, or knowingly after sale, removes or renders inoperative an air pollution control device installed on or in a motor vehicle or engine; or manufactures, sells, or installs, parts or components that bypass, defeat, or render inoperative air pollution control devices installed on or in a motor vehicle or engine if the person knows or should know that the part or component is being offered for sale or installed for that use.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-04-21 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

This bill exempts from land use restrictions under the Land Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) land known as the Community Park in Louisa, Virginia, thus allowing the land to be used for activities designed to improve compliance with water quality standards. Currently, land acquired or developed with assistance from the LWCF must be used for public outdoor recreation use and may not be converted to other uses without the approval of the Department of the Interior.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2016-04-27 00:00:00

Airplane Impacts Mitigation Act of 2016 or the AIM Act of 2016

This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to enter into an agreement with an eligible institution of higher education to conduct a study of the health impacts of airplane flights on residents exposed to a range of noise and air pollution levels from such flights.

The study shall:

 focus on residents in Boston, Chicago, New York, the northern California metroplex, Phoenix, and not more than three additional metropolitan areas that each contain at least one international airport; consider the health impacts on residents living partly or wholly within the land area underneath the flight paths most frequently used by aircraft flying below 10,000 feet; and consider only those health impacts that manifest during the physical implementation of the NextGen RNAV program on flights departing from or arriving at an international airport located in one of such metropolitan areas. An institution of higher education is eligible to conduct the study if it:

 has a school of public health that has participated in the FAA Center of Excellence for Aircraft Noise and Aviation Emissions Mitigation, has a Center for Environmental Health that receives funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is located in one of the areas within the scope of the study, applies to the FAA in a timely fashion, demonstrates that it is qualified to conduct such a study, and agrees to submit its findings to the FAA within two years after entering into such an agreement.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-05-24 00:00:00

Healthy Soils and Rangelands Solutions Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, to establish a Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program to make grants to owners or operators of qualified public lands, universities, nongovernmental organizations, or Indian tribes for projects for sequestering carbon through:

 grazing practices, restoring degraded qualified public lands, application of compost on qualified public lands, or using biochar (carbonized biomass) as an amendment on qualified public lands. Interior shall establish a science advisory board to furnish analysis and recommendations regarding:

 the selection of such eligible entities and activities to receive grants based on the best available science, and appropriate monitoring requirements to quantify project performance and communicate results. Interior shall make grants, through a challenge competition, to eligible entities for projects to carry out innovative approaches to eligible activities.

Interior:

 may furnish technical assistance for eligible activities, and shall expand outreach and education respecting carbon sequestration and best practices related to those activities.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-07-07 00:00:00

Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act of 2016

This bill prohibits the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from considering the social cost of carbon or methane as part of any cost benefit analysis, unless a federal law is enacted authorizing such consideration.

The EPA must report on the number of proposed and final rulemakings, guidance documents, and agency actions since January 2009 that use either of those social costs, including as part of any cost benefit analysis required under Executive Order 12866 and other relevant authorities.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-07-18 00:00:00

Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2016 

This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize through FY2021 a diesel emissions reduction program. The program authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to provide grants, rebates, or loans for reducing diesel emissions from certain diesel vehicles or fleets by retrofitting or replacing their engines.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00

Climate Solutions Commission Act of 2016

This bill establishes a bipartisan National Climate Solutions Commission that must:

 undertake a comprehensive review of economically viable actions or policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States; make recommendations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the President, Congress, and the states; and use as its goals for emissions reductions those estimated rates of reduction that reflect the latest scientific findings of what is needed to avoid serious human health and environmental consequences of a changing climate. In order to be eligible for membership on the Commission, an individual must be a representative from: (1) nongovernmental organizations with expertise in the economy, energy, climate, or public health; or (2) industry organizations from relevant sectors.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) must conduct a study of programs, financial tools, and institutions that are focused on: (1) reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions; or (2) encouraging the research, development, prototyping, and deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The GAO must then report on: (1) the study results; and (2) an assessment of those financial tools, policies, and institutions that are most successful at reducing greenhouse gas emissions while protecting economic growth and employment.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00

CO2 Regulatory Certainty Act 

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise requirements for the secure geological storage of carbon dioxide for the purpose of the tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration.

The bill establishes a December 31, 2016, deadline and requirements for regulations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is required, under current law, to establish for determining adequate security measures for the geological storage of the carbon dioxide such that carbon dioxide does not escape into the atmosphere.

The IRS regulations must consider the carbon dioxide to be disposed of in secure geological storage if it is stored in compliance with specified rules promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act for the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide, the injection of carbon dioxide, and the criteria and standards for underground injection control programs that are applicable to Class II Wells.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2016-11-17 00:00:00

Neighborhood Noise Barriers Act of 2016

This bill amends the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 to allow the use of funds out of the Highway Trust Fund to construct a Type II noise barrier along a federal-aid highway, if it:

 is part of a project approved by the Department of Transportation before November 28, 1995; or separates a highway or other noise corridor from a group of structures of which the majority of those closest to the highway or noise corridor are residential in nature, and either were constructed before the construction or most recent widening of the highway or noise corridor, or are at least 10 years old. The bill makes the planning, design, or construction of a Type II noise barrier eligible for surface transportation block grant program funding.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2016-12-01 00:00:00

Drinking Water Affordability Act of 2016

This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to revise requirements concerning national primary drinking water regulations, including by:

 removing a requirement that the Environmental Protection Agency maintain, or provide greater, protection of human health when revising those regulations; extending the repayment schedule for loans from the drinking water state revolving funds (SRF); removing certain SRF matching fund requirement for states; authorizing states to protect public drinking water source areas; and removing federal reporting requirements if state or local requirements are at least equally stringent as federal requirements.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2015-01-07 00:00:00

This bill prohibits the head of any federal agency from implementing or enforcing any regulations, proposals, or actions establishing any carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas emissions reductions until the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Information Administration, and Department of Commerce certify in writing that China, India, and Russian have proposed, implemented, and enforced measures requiring substantially similar reductions.

Any regulation, proposal, or action that requires those emission reductions and that is in effect before this certification is made is nullified.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2015-01-07 00:00:00

General Duty Clarification Act of 2015

This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise the general duty clause, which addresses the prevention of accidental releases of hazardous air substances. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must: (1) promulgate regulations defining the terms "extremely hazardous substance," "appropriate hazard assessment techniques," and "design and maintain a safe facility"; and (2) issue guidelines to ensure enforcement of those provisions by EPA's regional offices in a uniform and appropriate manner across all regions of the United States. (The general duty clause requires owners and operators of stationary sources that produce, process, handle, or store hazardous substances to identify those substances at their facilities and take the necessary steps to prevent and minimize accidental releases of those substances.)

This bill excludes an emission resulting from an act intended to cause harm from the definition of "accidental release." Under the revised definition, the EPA may not use the general duty clause to regulate accidental release due to terrorist attacks.

In exercising its authority under the clause, the EPA is prohibited from requiring a stationary source to consider or implement particular designs, approaches, or technologies relating to manufacturing, processing, handling, or storage of hazardous substances.
Topic: Environment — Air Pollution
Subject: Energy
Date: 2015-02-26 00:00:00

Advanced Clean Coal Technology Investment in Our Nation Act of 2015 or the ACCTION Act of 2015

This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Department of Energy (DOE) to implement a program to demonstrate the integration of systems for the capture, transportation, and injection of carbon dioxide from industrial sources for long-term geological storage or enhanced oil recovery at a commercial scale.

The types of activities that must be undertaken under the existing coal and related technologies program are expanded. DOE may carry out a Transformational Coal Technology Program.

DOE must establish an advisory committee to report on the carbon capture and sequestration program and the coal and related technologies program.

Projects under the Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program are eligible to receive other forms of federal assistance. Within two years, DOE has to give final approval to applications for loan guarantees and make loans for advanced fossil energy technology projects under the Program.

DOE must take steps to streamline and expedite review of federal authorizations for clean coal generating projects. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow accelerated amortization of any mechanical or electronic system which is installed on a coal-fired electric generation unit and which reduces carbon dioxide emissions by specified means; (2) allow a new credit for investment in carbon dioxide capture, transport, and storage property; and (3) create a clean energy coal bond.

This bill establishes the Enhanced Recovery Program, a variable price support program, to accelerate the construction and operation of advanced coal-fueled projects that capture carbon dioxide emissions and sell or use the carbon dioxide for enhanced recovery.