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Renewable Energy-Biomass

S 536 (Wyden) - A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to modify the definition of the term "renewable biomass."

Referred to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

S 636 (Thune) - A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to conform the definition of renewable biomass to the definition given the term in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.

Referred To Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

S 870 (Lincoln) - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the credit for renewable electricity production to include electricity produced from biomass for on-site use and to modify the credit period for certain facilities producing electricity from open-loop biomass.

Referred to Senate Finance Committee

S 1095 (Wyden) - America's Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Act of 2009

A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to convert the renewable fuel standard into a low-carbon fuel standard, and for other purposes.

Referred to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

S 1713 (Reid) - Water Efficiency via Carbon Harvesting and Restoration (WECHAR) Act of 2009

A bill to establish loan guarantee programs to develop biochar technology using excess plant biomass, to establish biochar demonstration projects on public land, and for other purposes.

Referred to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

S 3188 (Shaheen) - American Renewable Biomass Heating Act of 2010

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an investment tax credit for biomass heating property

Introduced on March 25, 2010 and referred to Finance Committee

HR 622 (Michaud) - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the credit for renewable electricity production to include electricity produced from biomass for on-site use.

Referred to House Ways and Means Committee

HR 1111 (Rehberg) - Wildfire Risk Reduction and Renewable Biomass Utilization Act

A bill to promote as a renewable energy source the use of biomass removed from forest lands in connection with hazardous fuel reduction projects on certain federal land, and for other purposes.

Referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee

HR 1190 (Herseth-Sandlin) - Renewable Biomass Facilitation Act of 2009

A bill to promote the use of certain materials harvested from public lands in the production of renewable fuel, and for other purposes.

Referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee

HR 2528 (Meek) - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit period for certain open-loop biomass facilities.

Referred to House Ways and Means Committee

HR 4227 (Schrader) - Incentives to Increase Use of Renewable Biomass Act of 2009

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide loans to support the conversion of energy generation or heating and cooling systems to the use of renewable biomass and to support the installation of new equipment to use renewable biomass for such systems, and for other purposes.

Referred to House Agriculture Committee

HR 4374 (Herseth-Sandlin) - Renewable Biomass Fairness Act

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for electricity produced from biomass, to provide credit rate parity under such credit and to exclude certain unprocessed fuels from the cellulosic biofuel producer credit.

Referred to House Ways and Means Committee

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