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HR 2127 113th Congress House Environmental Protection Administrative law and regulatory procedures Air quality Climate change and greenhouse gases 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: May 23, 2013 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 24, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
May 23, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
May 23, 2013
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 under the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit until:

  • the Administrator determines that carbon capture and storage is the best system of emission reduction; and
  • carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible for such units in a report submitted by at least three of the following officials: the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, the Comptroller General (GAO), the Director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology.

Prohibits the Administrator, in proposing or finalizing any such rule, from combining in the same category of stationary sources: (1) an electric utility steam generating unit that is constructed for supplying more than one-third of its potential electric output capacity and more than 25 megawatt net-electrical output to any utility power distribution system for sale, and (2) a combined cycle electric generating unit that is subject to standards of performance for stationary combustion turbines.

What's happening now May 24, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

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