• Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee• Transportation and Infrastructure Committee• Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee• Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee• Ways and Means Committee• Agriculture Committee• Energy Subcommittee• Financial Services Committee• Science, Space, and Technology Committee• Energy and Commerce Committee• Natural Resources Committee
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
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.
Referred 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Referred 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Accounting and auditingAdministrative law and regulatory proceduresAdvanced technology and technological innovationsAgricultural prices, subsidies, creditAir qualityAlternative and renewable resourcesBusiness expensesBusiness investment and capitalCapital gains taxClimate change and greenhouse gasesCoalCompetitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsCongressional oversightCorporate finance and managementDepartment of EnergyDepartment of the InteriorDepartment of the TreasuryElectric power generation and transmissionEnergy pricesEnergy researchEnergy revenues and royaltiesEnergy storage, supplies, demandExecutive agency funding and structureExport-Import Bank of the United StatesForeign and international corporationsForeign loans and debtGovernment information and archivesGovernment lending and loan guaranteesGovernment studies and investigationsGovernment trust fundsGulf of MexicoHazardous wastes and toxic substancesIncome tax creditsIncome tax deductionsInterest, dividends, interest ratesMarine and coastal resources, fisheriesMarine pollutionMiningMontanaMotor fuelsMultilateral development programsNavigation, waterways, harborsOil and gasPipelinesPollution liabilityPublic participation and lobbyingRailroadsResearch administration and fundingResearch and developmentRural conditions and developmentSales and excise taxesSecuritiesSolid waste and recyclingTax administration and collection, taxpayersTaxation of foreign incomeTransportation programs fundingWorker safety and healthWyoming
End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021
USA117th CongressHR-2102| House
| Updated: 5/26/2021
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.
Referred 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Referred 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
• Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee• Transportation and Infrastructure Committee• Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee• Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee• Ways and Means Committee• Agriculture Committee• Energy Subcommittee• Financial Services Committee• Science, Space, and Technology Committee• Energy and Commerce Committee• Natural Resources Committee
Accounting and auditingAdministrative law and regulatory proceduresAdvanced technology and technological innovationsAgricultural prices, subsidies, creditAir qualityAlternative and renewable resourcesBusiness expensesBusiness investment and capitalCapital gains taxClimate change and greenhouse gasesCoalCompetitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsCongressional oversightCorporate finance and managementDepartment of EnergyDepartment of the InteriorDepartment of the TreasuryElectric power generation and transmissionEnergy pricesEnergy researchEnergy revenues and royaltiesEnergy storage, supplies, demandExecutive agency funding and structureExport-Import Bank of the United StatesForeign and international corporationsForeign loans and debtGovernment information and archivesGovernment lending and loan guaranteesGovernment studies and investigationsGovernment trust fundsGulf of MexicoHazardous wastes and toxic substancesIncome tax creditsIncome tax deductionsInterest, dividends, interest ratesMarine and coastal resources, fisheriesMarine pollutionMiningMontanaMotor fuelsMultilateral development programsNavigation, waterways, harborsOil and gasPipelinesPollution liabilityPublic participation and lobbyingRailroadsResearch administration and fundingResearch and developmentRural conditions and developmentSales and excise taxesSecuritiesSolid waste and recyclingTax administration and collection, taxpayersTaxation of foreign incomeTransportation programs fundingWorker safety and healthWyoming