Ongoing congressional debates over energy project permitting, electric vehicles and fossil fuel exports yielded a flurry of new bills this month.
Beyond the big permitting packages in contention on Capitol Hill, lawmakers have introduced a number of smaller bills targeting greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel exports, California’s Clean Air Act waivers and the construction of new transmission lines.
In the House, Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) last week introduced H.R. 9558, the “Exported Carbon Emissions Report Act,” to increase transparency about the planet-warming impacts of American fossil fuels that are burned abroad.
The bill would require annual EPA reports on the carbon dioxide and methane emissions released inside the United States as a result of the extraction, processing or combustion of fossil fuels, as well as outside the U.S. as a result of leakage or combustion of fossil fuels produced in the U.S. and later exported.
