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S 453 115th Congress Senate Environmental Protection Administrative law and regulatory procedures Air quality Climate change and greenhouse gases Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental regulatory procedures Executive agency funding and structure

Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act

Introduced: February 27, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Feb 27, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Feb 27, 2017
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Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act

This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to include an offset in any proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions and imposes increased costs on other agencies. The offset must be from funds available to the EPA and be for all projected increased costs imposed on other agencies.

Agencies may not pass on the cost imposed by the rule on to any rate payer of the agencies.

What's happening now February 27, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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Cotton, Tom
Arkansas · Feb 27, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 453: Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-453/
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"S. 453: Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-453/.
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S. 453, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-453/.
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