A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to consider the objective of improving the conversion, use, and storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels in carrying out research and development programs under that Act.

This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Department of Energy to consider the objective of improving the conversion, use, and storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels when carrying out certain research, development, demonstration, and commercial application programs in fossil energy.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1282 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1282

  To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of 
Energy to consider the objective of improving the conversion, use, and 
 storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels in carrying out 
           research and development programs under that Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 11, 2015

  Mr. Manchin (for himself and Ms. Heitkamp) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of 
Energy to consider the objective of improving the conversion, use, and 
 storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels in carrying out 
           research and development programs under that Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FOSSIL ENERGY.

    Section 961(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
16291(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8) Improving the conversion, use, and storage of carbon 
        dioxide produced from fossil fuels.''.
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