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H.R. 5031: Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2018

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H.R. 5031: Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2018

115th Congress · introduced 2018-02-15 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-02-15 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2018

Plain summary

Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2018 This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish a Climate Solutions Challenges program for carrying out competitions that award cash and other incentives for climate and energy solutions, such as: capturing carbon and converting the carbon into a beneficial use, achieving transformative increases in energy efficiency, achieving implementation or grid integration of advanced energy storage technology, providing approaches to mitigating or adapting to the effects of climate change, and providing data analytics on the climate and related phenomena.

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Official text

Challenges & Prizes for Climate Act of 2018

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3] · 23 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr5031 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115