International Maritime Pollution Accountability Act of 2025
Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill adds or tightens a compliance mandate, tariff, trade restriction provision: 3, adds or tightens a reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 4, and reduces a compliance mandate, trade restriction, definition change provision: 5. It relies on compliance mandates, trade restrictions, reporting requirements, and tariffs. The main policy areas are Energy, Defense, and Healthcare.
Who Benefits and How
The available clause analysis does not identify a specific beneficiary group.
Who Bears the Burden and How
No clear private burden is identified from the available clause analysis; implementing agencies may still take on administrative work.
Key Provisions
- Adds or tightens a compliance mandate, tariff, trade restriction provision: 3.
- Adds or tightens a reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 4.
- Reduces a compliance mandate, trade restriction, definition change provision: 5.
- Expands a compliance mandate provision: 6. Fees on criteria air pollutants.
- Expands a appropriation, grant, reporting req provision: 7. Decarbonizing shipping and ports In this subsection: The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Maritime Administration. The term low-carbon fuel...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill adds or tightens a compliance mandate, tariff, trade restriction provision: 3, adds or tightens a reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 4, and reduces a compliance mandate, trade restriction, definition change provision: 5.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Defense, Healthcare
Primary Purpose
The bill adds or tightens a compliance mandate, tariff, trade restriction provision: 3, adds or tightens a reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 4, and reduces a compliance mandate, trade restriction, definition change provision: 5.
Policy Domains
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Whitehouse (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and …
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary_of_energy"
- → Secretary of Energy
- "administrator_of_epa"
- → Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a marine fuel the lifecycle CO2-e emissions of which is at least 90 percent less than the lifecycle CO2-e emissions of marine fuel oil. The term maritime academy means— the United States Merchant Marine Academy
a voyage— made using a self-propelled vessel of 5,000 gross tonnage or more, the primary purpose of which is transporting cargo or freight
a voyage made using a vessel— the primary purpose of which is transporting cargo or freight
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