# 119-hr-9975: Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act of 2026

119-hr-9975, Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act of 2026, 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 2026-08-06).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-9975
- Congress: 119
- Title: Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act of 2026
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-07-27
- Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20] (D-NY)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Environmental Protection
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-06

## Summary

**Establishes a rising federal mandate to remove carbon dioxide directly from ambient air and seawater.** The Department of Energy must meet a time‑phased schedule through competitive contracts and require strict quality, measurement, and storage standards. - Workers and businesses: Creates demand for domestic jobs and manufacturing, with selection preferences for labor, small businesses, minority-owned, and women-owned firms. - Communities and regions: Prioritizes regional economic development in fossil-fuel communities, requires robust public engagement, enforceable community benefit agreements, and quantified local environmental co-benefits. - Program design and climate safeguards: Sets a stepped removal schedule that reaches 10 million net metric tons per year by 2036 and requires contracts that meet durability and additionality rules. The program includes a set-aside for small removal projects, price ceilings starting up to $750 per ton that decline over time, independent third-party measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification, and a ban on double counting.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-50] (D-CA), 2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Small-project set-aside and priorities: benefit, medium. If enacted, at least 20% of each year's required removals in FY2026–2035 should come from small projects. A "small" project would remove no more than 5% of that fiscal year's requirement. The Secretary would also limit any single company to 25% of a year's removals when enough capable companies exi…
- Study and funding for scaling program: benefit, medium. If enacted, the Secretary must report within one year on options to design and finance a federal CO2 removal offtake program that could scale to one billion tons per year by 2050. The study must consider management structures like a government-sponsored enterprise, a government corporation, a DOE o…
- Federal CO2 removal purchase program: mixed, high. If enacted, the Secretary of Energy would have to secure rising amounts of net CO2 removal each year: 50,000 tons in FY2026–27, 500,000 tons in FY2028–30, 5,000,000 tons in FY2031–35, and 10,000,000 tons in FY2036 and after. Each fiscal-year amount would need to be removed no later than three years…
- Rules to verify and report CO2 removals: mixed, medium. If enacted, the Secretary must set measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MMRV) rules within one year. The rules would require independent third-party verification, lifecycle accounting, durability standards, and regular updates. The Secretary would publish a public report by January…

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- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-3077: Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
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## Sources
- [119-hr-9975 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9975)

## Related
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [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-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853)
- [119-hres-1058: Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implem…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-1058)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9975 (as of 2026-08-06).