3.0.0 661 2025-12-05T08:35:56Z 2025-12-05T08:35:56Z Senate S S 2023-03-06 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/661 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-03-06T22:24:05Z 118 1460 HR 2023-03-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials. Identical bill CRS 2023-03-06 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2023-03-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. N M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2023-03-06 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2023-03-06 True F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2023-05-16 False Environmental Protection Environmental Protection 2023-03-22T20:01:32Z

00 2023-03-06 Introduced in Senate 2023-10-02T14:24:26Z <p><b>Crypto-Asset Environmental Transparency Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill establishes greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reporting and related requirements for certain crypto-asset mining operations, such as facilities that mine Bitcoin.</p> <p>The bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise reporting requirements under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program to require crypto-asset mining operations that consume five megawatts of electricity or more to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the EPA. The EPA must also designate such operations as a source category of GHG emissions that is subject to greenhouse gas reporting requirements and related monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements.</p><p>In addition, the EPA must request information from crypto-asset mining operations and assess the extent to which any operations are improperly operating without a valid and current permit under the Clean Air Act.</p> <p>The bill also expands the meaning of <i>data center </i>under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to include facilities in which two or more computers are mining crypto-assets. Thus, such facilities are included in the scope of energy efficiency programs for data centers under that act.</p> <p>Finally, the EPA must study the environmental impacts of crypto-asset mining.</p>

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