# 119-hr-6918: Climate Pollution Standard and Community Investment Act of 2025 119-hr-6918, Climate Pollution Standard and Community Investment Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20] (D-NY); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6918 - As of: 2026-04-21 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-6918 - Congress: 119 - Title: Climate Pollution Standard and Community Investment Act of 2025 - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2025-12-19 - Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20] (D-NY) - Cosponsors: 0 - Policy area: Environmental Protection - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-04-21 ## Summary **This bill would create a national, economy-wide _cap-and-auction system_ that sets annual greenhouse gas allowance limits and aims for net‑zero emissions by 2050.** It pairs enforceable emissions limits and auctions with dedicated funds for rebates, worker transition, community health, and clean energy innovation. - Families and low‑income households: A Clean Energy Rebate Program would use 15% of auction proceeds to provide rebates to households with income up to 200% of the poverty level, including Supplemental Security Income recipients. Rebates would be delivered electronically and excluded from gross income for tax purposes. - Workers and communities: The bill creates an Office of Energy and Economic Transition and a Worker and Community Assistance Fund seeded by 5% of allowances to support grants, technical assistance, and a wage‑adjustment program that can pay eligible displaced workers for up to 36 months. - Regulated sources and markets: Large power plants and industrial facilities meeting set thresholds would need allowances, report to a federal greenhouse gas registry, and comply in the first compliance period starting 2027. Auctions begin in 2027 with a $15 minimum price and enforceable penalties tied to auction prices. ## Provisions PRIA read - Help for workers and communities: benefit, high. This bill would create an Office of Energy and Economic Transition in the White House and a Task Force to coordinate help for workers and places hurt by the energy transition. It would fund wage adjustment assistance that pays up to 36 months a monthly amount equal to your prior 12‑month average pa… - How auction money is split: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would reserve and auction parts of annual allowances and use the money for many programs. A scheduled share would go to States and Tribes (30% in early periods, phasing down to 0% after period 10) and those proceeds must benefit electricity and residential/commercial fuel users… - Payments to farmers for carbon: benefit, medium. This bill would create a Negative Emissions Activities Fund and pay producers for verified carbon removal or sequestration practices. Auction shares deposited to the Fund would increase over time (starting 2.5% and rising up to 20% under a schedule). The EPA would run a contracts program with 5–20… - New staged surrender rules for emitters: cost, high. This bill would require covered emitters to surrender emission allowances on a fixed, phased schedule starting Jan. 1, 2027. By 12:01 a.m. on April 1 of the second year of a compliance period they would need to surrender at least 50% of first‑year emissions. By 12:01 a.m. on April 1 of the third ye… - Allowance auctions, price floor rules: mixed, high. This bill would require quarterly sealed-bid, uniform-price allowance auctions starting by March 31, 2027. The initial auction floor price would be $15 in 2027 and would rise each year by last year's floor times (5% plus that year's CPI‑U change). No buyer may buy more than 5% of an auction. The bi… - Border carbon rules for imports: mixed, high. This bill would make importers of covered goods buy international reserve allowances for imports entering customs territory on or after January 1, 2028. The import allowance price would be the average of the previous four domestic auction clearing prices. Importers would need third-party verified e… - New national cap-and-trade program: mixed, high. This bill would add a nationwide Climate Pollution Reduction Program to the Clean Air Act. Covered sources would start compliance on January 1, 2027 and include many power plants, industrial sources, fuel producers, and large local gas distributors that meet thresholds (for example, 25 MW nameplate… ## Related bills - 119-hr-3077: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025 - 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act - 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act - 119-hr-5658: Child Care for Every Community Act - 119-hr-5356: National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2025 - 119-hr-3069: Medicare for All Act ## Sources - [119-hr-6918 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6918) ## Related - [119-hr-3077: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3077) - [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977) - [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973) - [119-hr-5658: Child Care for Every Community Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5658) - [119-hr-5356: National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5356) - [119-hr-3069: Medicare for All Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3069) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6918 (as of 2026-04-21).