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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 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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 Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now September 20, 2012

Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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