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Version 25 · Reported to Senate · Sep 25, 2019
Launching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas Act of 2019
This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a program for the capture of carbon dioxide produced during the generation of natural gas-generated power.
Specifically, DOE must
identify opportunities to accelerate the development of commercially viable carbon capture technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions;
enter into cooperative agreements with certain entities to license, permit, construct, and operate at least three facilities to capture carbon dioxide from natural gas generating power facilities; and
identify any barriers to the commercial development of carbon capture technologies.
People & committees
Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] · R–TX
Legislative record
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 221.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-118.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-118.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-327.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced in Senate
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