H.R. 1512 · 117th Congress

CLEAN Future Act

Introduced on Mar 2, 2021 by Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-6). 21 cosponsors, all from the sponsor's party. Latest action (Jun 30, 2022): Subcommittee Hearings Held.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Mar 2, 2021
Cosponsors
21
0 from the other party
Policy area
Environmental Protection
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

To build a clean and prosperous future by addressing the climate crisis, protecting the health and welfare of all Americans, and putting the Nation on the path to a net-zero greenhouse gas economy by 2050, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Accidents
  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Advanced technology and technological innovations
  • Agricultural conservation and pollution
  • Air quality
  • Alternative and renewable resources
  • Banking and financial institutions regulation
  • Building construction
  • Business investment and capital
  • Buy American requirements
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular and respiratory health
  • Census and government statistics
  • Child care and development
  • Child health
  • Civil actions and liability
  • Climate change and greenhouse gases
  • Coal
  • Community life and organization
  • Computer security and identity theft
  • Computers and information technology
  • Congressional oversight
  • Credit and credit markets
  • Department of Energy
  • Disaster relief and insurance
  • Education programs funding
  • Educational facilities and institutions
  • Electric power generation and transmission
  • Elementary and secondary education
  • Emergency communications systems
  • Emergency medical services and trauma care
  • Emergency planning and evacuation
  • Employment and training programs
  • Energy
  • Energy assistance for the poor and aged
  • Energy efficiency and conservation
  • Energy prices
  • Energy research
  • Energy storage, supplies, demand
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
  • Environmental education
  • Environmental health
  • Environmental regulatory procedures
  • Environmental technology
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Financial services and investments
  • Food industry and services
  • Forests, forestry, trees
  • Geography and mapping
  • Government buildings, facilities, and property
  • Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
  • Government information and archives
  • Government lending and loan guarantees
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Government trust funds
  • Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
  • Health facilities and institutions
  • Higher education
  • Housing and community development funding
  • Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
  • Indian social and development programs
  • Industrial facilities
  • Infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Inflation and prices
  • Infrastructure development
  • Labor standards
  • Libraries and archives
  • Lighting, heating, cooling
  • Low- and moderate-income housing
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Metals
  • Minority employment
  • Motor carriers
  • Motor fuels
  • Motor vehicles
  • Natural disasters
  • News media and reporting
  • Nuclear power
  • Oil and gas
  • Pollution liability
  • Poverty and welfare assistance
  • Public contracts and procurement
  • Public participation and lobbying
  • Public utilities and utility rates
  • Public-private cooperation
  • Racial and ethnic relations
  • Regional and metropolitan planning
  • Research administration and funding
  • Right of privacy
  • Science and engineering education
  • Small business
  • Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
  • Solid waste and recycling
  • State and local government operations
  • Tax-exempt organizations
  • Teaching, teachers, curricula
  • Technology transfer and commercialization
  • Transportation programs funding
  • Unemployment
  • Urban and suburban affairs and development
  • Vocational and technical education
  • Wages and earnings
  • Water quality
  • Women in business

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in House, Mar 2, 2021). Public domain.

Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s Future Act or the CLEAN Future Act

This bill creates requirements and incentives to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

The bill establishes an interim goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030 as well as a national goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Each federal agency must develop a plan to achieve the goals.

Beginning in 2023, retail electricity suppliers must provide an increasing percentage of electricity that is generated without the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (zero-emission electricity). By 2035, the suppliers must provide 100% zero-emission electricity or demonstrate alternative means of compliance. For example, the suppliers may buy credits under a trading program that allows entities to buy, sell, and trade credits to demonstrate compliance.

The bill also establishes a variety of requirements, programs, and incentives to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by

  • modernizing the electric grid and supporting clean energy microgrids;
  • increasing the use of renewable energy and advanced nuclear power technologies;
  • increasing energy efficiency in buildings, homes, and appliances;
  • supporting clean transportation, including electric vehicles and related charging infrastructure;
  • issuing greenhouse gas standards for certain vehicles, engines, and aircraft;
  • promoting manufacturing and industrial decarbonization, including through buy-clean programs;
  • supporting environmental justice efforts; and
  • reducing methane, plastics, and super pollutants.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Frank Pallone, Jr.D-NJ-6Sponsor

Democrats · 21

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Mar 2, 2021Introduced in House
  2. Mar 2, 2021Introduced in House
  3. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  4. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  5. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  6. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  7. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  8. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  9. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  10. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  11. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  12. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  13. Mar 2, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Reform, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Natural Resources, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Science, Space, and Technology, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Financial Services, 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.
  14. Mar 3, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
  15. Mar 3, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
  16. Mar 3, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
  17. Mar 3, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
  18. Mar 3, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
  19. Mar 3, 2021 · HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
  20. Jun 30, 2022 · HouseSubcommittee Hearings Held.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. PEABODY INVESTMENTS CORP.9 reports
    $1.6M reported (all issues)
  2. BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS INC.7 reports
    $2.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS TIRE OPERATIONS, LLCAI match · 99%
  3. THE CHEMOURS COMPANY7 reports
    $3.2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: THE CHEMOURS CO FC LLC$4.5M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  4. PEPSICO, INC.5 reports
    $4.8M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: PEPSICO BEVERAGE SALES, LLC$3.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 91%
  5. AMERICAN CLEAN POWER ASSOCIATION1 report
  6. Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.1 report
    $18.7M reported (all issues)
  7. WINDWARD FUND1 report
    $30K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2023, 2024, 2025.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.