The proposed Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act (2020) is a large, economy-wide climate bill released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Among its many provisions, the 622-page bill includes:
- A national Clean Electricity Standard requiring electricity suppliers to increase the percentage of energy provided from clean electricity sources each year beginning in 2022
- The creation of a National Climate Bank to finance decarbonization projects
- Directives to the EPA to establish ambitious vehicle performance standards and emissions standards for aircraft
- Investments in electric vehicles and the buildout of electric vehicle infrastructure
- Building codes that require zero energy ready buildings, which the bill describes as “highly efficient buildings that could meet the balance of energy needs from onsite or nearby sources of energy that do not produce greenhouse gases,” by 2030
- Funding to increase the efficiency of existing buildings through retrofits, such as clean energy installations and upgrades to more efficient technologies
- A program to provide loans to eligible entities to support deployment of distributed energy systems
- A requirement that FERC to initiate a rulemaking to increase the effectiveness of the interregional transmission planning process
- A long-term nuclear power purchase agreement pilot program
- A DOE carbon capture and utilization technology commercialization program to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, cost, and environmental performance of fossil fuel-fired facilities, and a direct air capture technology prize program
- Requirements for EPA to promulgate new rules in the oil and natural gas sector to meet national methane reduction goals, including a 65 percent reduction in methane emissions below 2012 levels by 2025, and a 90 percent reduction below 2012 levels by 2030