Investing in Climate Action and Protection Act
Latest action · Jun 12, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
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.
- IntroducedJun 4, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Investing in Climate Action and Protection Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish: (1) a federal greenhouse gas (GHG) registry, for which affected entities must report information regarding fossil fuels and the GHGs produced, consumed, or sequestered; (2) specified quantities of GHG emission allowances, which decline for each of 2012 to 2050; and (3) a GHG emission allowance transfer system for specified covered facilities that emit more than 10,000 carbon dioxide equivalents of GHGs in a year, including facilities within the electric power sector, industrial facilities, facilities that produce or entities that import petroleum- or coal- based liquid or gaseous fuel, local distribution companies that deliver natural gas, and facilities that produce for sale or distribution, or entities that import, certain fluorinated gases that are GHGs.
Provides for the use of domestic or international offsets and destruction credits.
Requires the Administrator to: (1) allocate allowances to owners or operators of manufacturing facilities that are located in the United States and that principally manufacture trade-exposed primary goods for 2012-2019; and (2) auction all other allowances.
Establishes, and provides for the deposit of auction proceeds to and allocations from, the: (1) Investing in Climate Action and Protection Act Management Fund; (2) Climate Change Education and Outreach Fund; (3) Climate Trust Rebate Fund; (4) Low-Carbon Technology Fund; (5) National Energy Efficiency Fund; (6) Agriculture and Forestry Carbon Fund; (7) Climate Change Worker Transition Fund; (8) National Climate Change Adaptation Fund; (9) Natural Resource Conservation Fund; (10) International Forest Protection Fund; (11) International Clean Technology Fund; and (12) International Climate Change Adaptation Fund.
Requires the Administrator to establish: (1) an international reserve allowance program; (2) standards for the best available control technologies and practices for reducing methane or nitrous oxide emissions from specified stationary sources; (3) standards of emission performance for certain new electric generating units; (4) requirements regarding the distribution, use, and disposal of hydrofluorocarbon substitutes; and (5) requirements to reduce GHG emissions of transportation fuel produced, refined, blended, or imported by fuel providers.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish climate trust tax credits for working families and senior citizens, climate trust rebates for low-income households, and health coverage tax credits for certain workers.
Requires the establishment of: (1) the Worker Transition Assistance Program by the Secretary of Labor; (2) an interagency group to determine whether foreign counties have addressed GHGs, a National Climate Change Adaptation Council, and an Interagency Climate Change Task Force by the President; (3) a National Climate Change Adaptation Program and a National Climate Service by the Secretary of Commerce; (4) a Science Advisory Board by the Secretary of the Interior; (5) a Climate Change Education Program by the Director of the National Science Foundation; and (6) an International Climate Change Adaptation Program by the Secretary of State.
Considers California's application for a waiver of preemption for regulations to control GHG emissions from motor vehicles to be approved.
Amends the Federal Power Act to establish in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) an Office of Carbon Market Oversight. Provides for the regulation of carbon markets.
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator to promulgate regulations for state underground injection control programs establishing standards for permitting underground injection of carbon dioxide for purposes of geological sequestration.
Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to require the Secretary of Energy to update and provide incentive funding to states for implementing national model building energy codes and standards.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 10
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Jun 12, 2008 | |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Jun 10, 2008 | |
| Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee | Referred Jun 10, 2008 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| Aviation Subcommittee | Referred Jun 5, 2008 | |
| Highways and Transit Subcommittee | Referred Jun 5, 2008 | |
| Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee | Referred Jun 5, 2008 | |
| Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee | Referred Jun 5, 2008 | |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Jun 4, 2008 |
Actions 11
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 12, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
- Jun 10, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
- Jun 10, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
- Jun 5, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
- Jun 5, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- Jun 5, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
- Jun 5, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jun 4, 2008Introduced in House
- Jun 4, 2008Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1136-1137)
- Jun 4, 2008Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Science and Technology, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/5/2008 E1151-1153)
- Jun 4, 2008Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Science and Technology, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Summaries E1151–E1153 | Edward J. Markey D-MA | Jun 5, 2008 |
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E1136 | Edward J. Markey D-MA | Jun 4, 2008 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 4
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-50 | THE FUTURE OF LIHEAP FUNDING: WILL FAMILIES GET THE COLD SHOULDER THIS WINTER?85 pages | Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming | Sep 25, 2008 |
| Serial No. 110-98 | POLICY OPTIONS TO PREVENT CLIMATE CHANGE255 pages | Ways and Means Committee | Sep 18, 2008 |
| Serial No. 110-79 | ``PLANNING FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE AND ITS IMPACTS ON WILDLIFE AND OCEANS: STATE AND FEDERAL EFFORTS AND NEEDS''; AND H.R. 4455, WILDLIFE WITHOUT BORDERS AUTHORIZATION ACT.107 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Jun 24, 2008 |
| Serial No. 110-130 | LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: AN OVERVIEW488 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Jun 19, 2008 |
CRS reports 3
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 3
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R45472 | Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Legislation: 108th Through 118th Congresses | Report | Dec 4, 2024 |
| R40841 | Assisting Households with the Costs of a CapandTrade Program: Options and Considerations for Congress Archived | Report | Oct 8, 2009 |
| RL34634 | Climate Change and International Deforestation: Legislative Analysis Archived | Report | Aug 22, 2008 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Investing in Climate Action and Protection Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative procedure
- Air pollution control
- Auctions
- Building laws
- California
- Carbon dioxide
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Department of Energy
- Developing countries
- Directories
- Economic assistance
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electric utilities
- Emissions trading
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental research
- Environmental technology
- Executive reorganization
- Expedited congressional procedure
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to air pollution control
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Federal preemption
- Federal-state relations
- Fluorocarbons
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fossil fuels
- Gas companies
- Gas industry
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health insurance
- House rules and procedure
- Imports
- Income tax
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Industrial pollution
- Insurance premiums
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legislative resolutions
- Manufacturing industries
- Medical economics
- Methane
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Natural gas
- Nitrogen oxides
- Occupational retraining
- Performance measurement
- Petroleum
- Petroleum industry
- Rebates
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Senate rules and procedure
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- State laws
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Technical assistance
- Transportation and Public Works
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 4, 2008Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
