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H.R. 2102: End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021

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H.R. 2102: End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021

117th Congress · introduced 2021-03-19 · Energy · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-03-19 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] · 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 Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit. 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.

What does this mean?

Official title

End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021

Plain summary

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.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] · 47 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Ro Khanna (D-CA), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Sean Casten (D-IL), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Adam Smith (D-WA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Grace Meng (D-NY), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] reported raising $8.2 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr2102 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117