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Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act

To amend the Clean Air Act to repeal the natural gas tax.

Introduced Jan 16, 2025

Latest action (Jan 16, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Referred to
Environment and Public Works Committee
Policy area
Environmental Protection
Issues
Climate & EnergyEconomy & Taxes

Summary
  • Repeals Section 136 of the Clean Air Act.
  • Section 136 previously authorized a methane emissions and waste reduction incentive program for petroleum and natural gas systems.
  • Rescissions any unspent federal funds that had been allocated under the repealed section.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
17 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Ted Cruz’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $4,424,745
  • ENTREPRENEUR $458,096
  • RDV CORPORATION $39,600
  • AMERICAN AIRLINES $29,632
  • BLACKSTONE $27,400

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Ted Cruz → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 16, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. · senate
  2. Jan 16, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 313 — Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act · Introduced Jan 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
  • HR 7554 — CARBON Act · Introduced Feb 12, 2026 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 341 — Smoke and Heat Ready Communities Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 9083 — State Emissions Authority Act of 2026 · Introduced Jun 2, 2026 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 147 — Cleaner Air Spaces Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 4117 — Fuel Emissions Freedom Act · Introduced Jun 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Jan 16, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 16, 2025

Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Budd, Mr. Schmitt, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Lee, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Risch, Mr. Tillis, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, and Mr. Hoeven) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

A BILL

To amend the Clean Air Act to repeal the natural gas tax.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act”.

SEC. 2. REPEAL.

Section 136 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7436) (relating to methane emissions and waste reduction incentive program for petroleum and natural gas systems) is repealed.

SEC. 3. RESCISSION.

The unobligated balance of any amounts made available under section 136 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7436) (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act) is rescinded. <all>

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