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SEA FUEL Act of 2019

Introduced: May 23, 2019 Introduced by: Whitehouse, Sheldon Democratic · Rhode Island See on congress.gov
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May 23, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
May 23, 2019
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Securing Energy for our Armed Forces Using Engineering Leadership Act of 2019 or the SEA FUEL Act of 2019

This bill directs the Department of Defense to carry out a program of research, development, testing, evaluation, study, and demonstration of technologies related to blue carbon capture and direct air capture, with the goals of developing technologies to turn carbon dioxide into clean fuels, creating products for military uses, and using the technologies at military facilities and in military transportation. The bill defines "blue carbon capture" as the removal of dissolved carbon dioxide from seawater through engineered or inorganic processes and "direct air capture" as the use of equipment to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.

What's happening now May 23, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

 Related & companion bills 3
  • HR 2500 Related bill National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
  • S 1790 Related bill National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
  • HR 3227 Related bill SEA FUEL Act of 2019
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Reed, Jack
Rhode Island · May 23, 2019
 R
Sullivan, Dan
Alaska · May 23, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1679: SEA FUEL Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1679/
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"S. 1679: SEA FUEL Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1679/.
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S. 1679, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1679/.
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