HR382-119

What This Bill Does

The Exported Carbon Emissions Report Act creates an annual EPA reporting duty. EPA must publish, for each of the previous 10 calendar years, total carbon dioxide and methane emissions released within the United States and its territories from extracting, processing, transporting, combusting, and otherwise using fossil fuels. EPA must also publish total carbon dioxide and methane emissions released outside U.S. boundaries from leakage and combustion of fossil fuels that were produced or refined in the United States and then exported. EPA must use the best available scientific information, including direct monitoring and measurement where available and disclosures from national and subnational governments, and must be informed by international greenhouse gas accounting standards. The bill does not restrict exports; it makes exported fossil-fuel emissions visible in a comparable domestic-versus-exported emissions data series.

Who Benefits and How

Climate policy analysts benefit from an annual 10-year data series comparing domestic and exported fossil-fuel emissions. Communities tracking methane leakage benefit from EPA use of direct monitoring and measurement where available. Clean-energy advocates benefit from public accounting of emissions tied to U.S.-produced fossil fuels burned abroad. Congressional oversight committees benefit from recurring EPA data for export, climate, and energy policy debates.

Who Bears the Burden and How

EPA climate data staff must collect, calculate, and publish domestic and exported carbon dioxide and methane emissions annually. Fossil fuel exporters face greater public scrutiny over emissions from exported U.S. coal, oil, gas, or refined products. Oil and gas producers may be associated with downstream exported emissions beyond U.S. borders. Foreign governments and subnational agencies may need to supply or verify emissions disclosures used in EPA calculations.

Key Provisions

• Requires EPA to publish domestic and exported fossil-fuel emissions data within 180 days.
• Requires annual updates covering each of the previous 10 calendar years.
• Requires domestic emissions totals for extraction, processing, transportation, combustion, and other fossil-fuel use.
• Requires exported emissions totals for leakage and combustion of U.S.-produced or refined fossil fuels abroad.
• Requires best available science, direct monitoring where available, and international greenhouse gas accounting standards.