HR 6172
112th Congress
House
Environmental Protection
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Coal
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
Oil and gas
Public utilities and utility rates
Technology assessment
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.
Introduced: July 24, 2012
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 20, 2012
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Jul 27, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Jul 24, 2012
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Jul 24, 2012
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from finalizing any rule imposing a standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until three of four specified officials (the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, the Comptroller General, the Director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology) publish and submit to Congress a report finding that carbon capture and storage is technologically and economically feasible for such units.
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