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117th Congress
Senate
Environmental Protection
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
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Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
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Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Methane Emissions Reduction Act of 2021
Introduced: March 9, 2021
Introduced by:
Whitehouse, Sheldon
Democratic
· Rhode Island
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 9, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Mar 9, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Methane Emissions Reduction Act of 2021
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to estimate annual methane emissions from each oil and natural gas producing basin and levy a fee for such emissions on each company that produces, gathers, processes, or transmits oil or natural gas. The fees must be used to provide grants through the National Coastal Resilience Fund of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
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