End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021
Latest action · May 26, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
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.
- IntroducedMar 19, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021
This bill limits or eliminates certain fossil fuel oil and gas subsidies for oil companies, including by (1) eliminating the limit on liability for offshore facilities and pipeline operators; (2) eliminating the authority of the Department of Energy to carry out the Fossil Energy Research and Development Program and prohibiting funds made available to the Advanced Research Project Agency from being used to carry out any project that supports fossil fuels; (3) terminating certain provisions relating to enhanced oil recovery, producing oil and natural gas from marginal wells, and limitations on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas wells; (4) terminating other deductions and accounting methods supporting oil, natural gas, and coal companies; (5) increasing the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund financing rate; (6) denying a tax deduction for removal costs and damages relating to oil spills; (7) imposing an excise tax on the removal price of any taxable crude oil or natural gas; (8) increasing amortization periods for tertiary injectant expenses, development expenditures of a mine or other natural deposit, mining exploration expenditures, and intangible drilling and development costs for oil and gas wells and geothermal wells; (9) repealing the tax credits for the production of electricity from refined coal and for carbon oxide sequestration; and (10) requiring a study and elimination of certain other fossil fuel subsidies.
Cosponsors 47
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 19, 2021 to May 20, 2022.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Apr 19, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Apr 19, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Alan S. Lowenthal | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Jamaal Bowman | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Mondaire Jones | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Jun 8, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Jun 8, 2021 | |
| D-MO | Cori Bush | Jun 8, 2021 | |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Jun 8, 2021 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Jun 15, 2021 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Jun 15, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Marie Newman | Jun 22, 2021 | |
| D-MI | Andy Levin | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-MA | Jake Auchincloss | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Sep 7, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Sep 7, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Sep 10, 2021 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Sep 14, 2021 | |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Sep 14, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Sep 14, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Sep 27, 2021 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Sep 27, 2021 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Nov 1, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Gomez | Nov 1, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Ritchie Torres | Nov 1, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Nov 1, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Jan 19, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Karen Bass | Jan 19, 2022 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Feb 11, 2022 | |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Feb 11, 2022 | |
| D-IL | Sean Casten | Feb 11, 2022 | |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Mar 24, 2022 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Apr 18, 2022 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Apr 18, 2022 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Apr 18, 2022 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | May 17, 2022 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | May 20, 2022 |
Committees 7
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Mar 19, 2021 |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Mar 19, 2021 |
| Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee | Referred May 19, 2021 | |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Mar 19, 2021 |
| Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee | Referred Mar 22, 2021 | |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Mar 19, 2021 |
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Mar 19, 2021 |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Mar 19, 2021 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred May 26, 2021 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Mar 19, 2021 |
| Energy Subcommittee | Referred Mar 19, 2021 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 26, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
- May 19, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Mar 22, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
- Mar 19, 2021Introduced in House
- Mar 19, 2021Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, Science, Space, and Technology, Agriculture, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 52, March 19, 2021, page H1613.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R47113 | Capital Gains Taxes: An Overview of the Issues | Report | May 24, 2022 |
| R47006 | U.S. International Development Finance Corporation: Overview and Issues | Report | Jan 10, 2022 |
| IN11710 | Carbon Capture and Sequestration Tax Credit (“Section 45Q”) Legislation in the 117th Congress Archived | Insight | Jul 28, 2021 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1167 | End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021 | Identical bill | Apr 15, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To eliminate certain subsidies for fossil-fuel production.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Accounting and auditing
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
- Air quality
- Alternative and renewable resources
- Business expenses
- Business investment and capital
- Capital gains tax
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
- Congressional oversight
- Corporate finance and management
- Department of Energy
- Department of the Interior
- Department of the Treasury
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Energy
- Energy prices
- Energy research
- Energy revenues and royalties
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Foreign and international corporations
- Foreign loans and debt
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Gulf of Mexico
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Income tax credits
- Income tax deductions
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine pollution
- Mining
- Montana
- Motor fuels
- Multilateral development programs
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
- Oil and gas
- Pipelines
- Pollution liability
- Public participation and lobbying
- Railroads
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Rural conditions and development
- Sales and excise taxes
- Securities
- Solid waste and recycling
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Taxation of foreign income
- Transportation programs funding
- Worker safety and health
- Wyoming
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 19, 2021Introduced 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.
