To provide a reduction in the aggregate greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy consumed by vehicles and aircraft, and for other purposes.
Latest action · May 8, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 8, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Clean Air Act to require: (1) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate low carbon fuel performance standards for fuels and other sources of energy used to propel vehicles; and (2) such standards to begin to apply in 2015. Sets forth a declining standard that represents a graduated percentage reduction in aggregate emissions of GHG per Btu for each five-year period beginning in 2015. Requires the Administrator to review available control technology, safety considerations, and land and other resources available for production of fuels and other sources of energy used to propel vehicles. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate a more stringent standard if, based on such review, the Administrator determines it to be requisite to protect the public health and welfare from any known or anticipated adverse effects associated with GHG emissions.
Requires the Administrator, not later than January 1, 2010, to promulgate a low carbon fuel performance standard for fuels and other sources of energy used by aircraft. Provides that such standard shall: (1) apply for 2015-2019; and (2) remain in effect unless, for each five-year period thereafter beginning in 2020, the Administrator and the Secretary of Transportation determine after a thorough review of available technology and safety considerations that a more stringent standard is necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Sets forth provisions concerning compliance with the standard and calculations of the GHG emission rate per Btu.
Requires the Administrator, not later than January 1, 2009, to identify and label low-carbon transportation fuels based on specified criteria.
Prohibits transportation fuel sold in interstate commerce after January 1, 2010, from being derived from biomass from: (1) lands where ecosystem conversion has occurred after enactment of this Act; (2) sensitive lands; (3) specified lands enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program or the wetlands reserves program; (4) specified national interest lands; (5) recyclable postconsumer waste paper, painted, treated, or pressurized wood, or wood contaminated with plastic or metals; (6) municipal solid waste; or (7) materials produced, harvested, acquired, transported, or processed pursuant to an exemption from otherwise applicable environmental laws.
Requires the Administrator to ensure that no transportation fuel sold or introduced in interstate commerce after January 1, 2010, shall result in average per gallon vehicle emissions of air pollutants in excess of the 2007 emission levels or in a violation of any motor vehicle emission or fuel content limitation under such Act.
Authorizes sums to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy for a cooperative program of research and development relating to lower carbon alternatives for aircraft jet fuel and fuel for other vehicles.
Cosponsors 22
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 8, 2007 to Nov 5, 2007, with 8 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | May 8, 2007 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | May 8, 2007 |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Original | May 8, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Original | May 8, 2007 |
| D-CA | George Miller | Original | May 8, 2007 |
| D-HI | Mazie K. Hirono | Original | May 8, 2007 |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Original | May 8, 2007 |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Original | May 8, 2007 |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | May 9, 2007 | |
| R-WA | David G. Reichert | May 16, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | May 16, 2007 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | May 16, 2007 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | May 16, 2007 | |
| D-ME | Thomas H. Allen | May 16, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | May 24, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 8, 2007Introduced in House
- May 8, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- May 8, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural conservation
- Agriculture and Food
- Aviation fuels
- Biomass energy
- Carbon dioxide
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Commerce
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Emissions trading
- Energy
- Energy research
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal aid to research
- Fluorocarbons
- Government Operations and Politics
- Labeling
- Law
- Methane
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Municipal solid waste
- Nitrogen oxides
- Paper and paper products
- Refuse as fuel
- Research and development
- Research grants
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Standards
- Transportation and Public Works
- Water Resources Development
- Wetlands
- Wood
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 8, 2007Introduced in House
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