Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Energy development

Bill Introduced: H.R.6899 Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act

2008-09-15T00:00:00Z

To advance the national security interests of the United States by reducing its dependency on oil through renewable and clean, alternative fuel technologies while building a bridge to the future through expanded access to Federal oil and natural gas resources, revising the relationship between the oil and gas industry and the consumers who own those resources and deserve a fair return from the development of publicly owned oil and gas, ending tax subsidies for large oil and gas companies, and facilitating energy efficiencies in the building, housing, and transportation sectors, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.6709 National Conservation, Environment, and Energy Independence Act

2008-07-31T00:00:00Z

To greatly enhance the Nation's path toward energy independence and environmental, energy, economic, and national security, by amending Federal policy to increase the production of domestic energy sources, to dedicate fixed percentages of the royalties received for conservation programs, environmental restoration projects, renewable energy research and development, clean energy technology research and development, increased development of existing energy sources, and energy assistance for those in need, and to share a portion of such royalties with producing States, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.3389 Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act

2008-07-31T00:00:00Z

A bill to require, for the benefit of shareholders, the disclosure of payments to foreign governments for the extraction of natural resources, to allow such shareholders more appropriately to determine associated risks.

Bill Introduced: S.3239 Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act

2008-07-10T00:00:00Z

A bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing new Federal oil and gas leases to holders of existing leases who do not diligently develop the land subject to the existing leases or relinquish the leases, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.3222 Clean-Coal-Derived Fuels for Energy Security Act of 2008

2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

A bill to promote the energy security of the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.6251 Responsible Federal Oil and Gas Lease Act

2008-06-12T00:00:00Z

To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing new Federal oil and gas leases to holders of existing leases who do not diligently develop the lands subject to such existing leases or relinquish such leases, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.6066 Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act

2008-05-15T00:00:00Z

To require, for the benefit of shareholders, the disclosure of payments to foreign governments for the extraction of natural resources, to allow such shareholders more appropriately to determine associated risks.

Bill Introduced: S.3019 Oil Shale and Tar Sands Leasing Act of 2008

2008-05-14T00:00:00Z

A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote oil shale and tar sands leasing, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5507 Fully-Funded United States Military Redeployment and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act of 2008

2008-02-27T00:00:00Z

To require the safe, complete, and fully-funded redeployment of United States Armed Forces and contractor security forces from Iraq and to prohibit the establishment of any enduring or permanent United States military bases in Iraq, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5452 Coastal State Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2008

2008-02-14T00:00:00Z

To amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize grants to coastal States to support State efforts to initiate and complete surveys of coastal State waters and Federal waters adjacent to a State's coastal zone to identify potential areas suitable or unsuitable for the exploration, development, and production of renewable energy, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5351 Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008

2008-02-12T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the production of renewable energy and energy conservation.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4893 To penalize States that prohibit oil and gas exploration within their borders by denying them the use of any oil or natural gas produced domestically elsewhere.

2007-12-19T00:00:00Z

To penalize States that prohibit oil and gas exploration within their borders by denying them the use of any oil or natural gas produced domestically elsewhere.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3435 Security and Fuel Efficiency Energy Act of 2007

2007-08-03T00:00:00Z

To improve energy security of the United States through a reduction in the oil intensity of the economy of the United States and expansion of secure oil supplies, to be achieved by increasing the availability of alternative fuel sources, fostering responsible oil exploration and production, and improving international arrangements to secure the global oil supply, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2880 Iran Sanctions Enhancement Act of 2007

2007-06-27T00:00:00Z

To amend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 to enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by expanding economic sanctions against Iran to include the importation of refined petroleum.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2867 Independence Prize Act of 2007

2007-06-26T00:00:00Z

To authorize the Secretary of Energy to establish a program for making prizes for advanced or transformational technologies for the production, consumption, and distribution of nonpetroleum-based alternative energy and energy efficiency.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2838 Insular Areas Energy Act of 2007

2007-06-22T00:00:00Z

To enhance the Department of Energy Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program established under title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by explicitly permitting its application on United States Government installations worldwide, in the Insular Areas of the United States, and in those nations in free association with the United States, as well as explicitly authorize loans for ocean thermal energy conversion projects.

Bill Introduced: H.Res.500 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in opposition to efforts by major natural gas exporting countries to establish a cartel or other mechanism to manipulate the supply of natural gas to the world market for the purpose of setting an arbitrary and nonmarket price or as an instrument of political pressure.

2007-06-20T00:00:00Z

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in opposition to efforts by major natural gas exporting countries to establish a cartel or other mechanism to manipulate the supply of natural gas to the world market for the purpose of setting an arbitrary and nonmarket price or as an instrument of political pressure.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2784 National Environment and Energy Development Act

2007-06-20T00:00:00Z

To greatly enhance the Nation's environmental, energy, economic, and national security by terminating long-standing Federal prohibitions on the domestic production of abundant offshore supplies of natural gas, to dedicate fixed percentages of the resultant royalties for environmental restoration projects, renewable energy and carbon sequestration research, and weatherization and energy assistance for those in need, and to share a portion of such royalties with producing States, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.1517 Oil Shale Reserve Fund Revenue Disposition Act

2007-05-24T00:00:00Z

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the distribution of a share of certain mineral revenues to the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2483 Produced Water Utilization Act of 2007

2007-05-24T00:00:00Z

To provide for research, development, and demonstration on energy technologies to ensure the Nation's continued supply and efficient use of affordable, reliable, and clean energy, and for other purposes.