Bill > HR4024

This bill, the Clean Shipping Act of 2023, amends the Clean Air Act to establish standards to limit the carbon intensity of the fuel used by certain vessels. The key provisions are: 1. The bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator to promulgate regulations setting standards for the carbon intensity of fuel used by vessels on "covered voyages" (between U.S. ports or between a U.S. port and a foreign port). These standards mandate a gradual reduction in carbon intensity, reaching 100% less than the 2024 baseline by 2040. 2. The bill allows the EPA Administrator to adjust the standards if they are not technologically or economically feasible, as long as the maximum feasible reduction in carbon intensity is achieved. 3. The bill requires vessels to report annually on the carbon intensity and greenhouse gas emissions of their covered voyages, and the EPA to publish a report compiling and analyzing this data. 4. The bill also requires the EPA to promulgate standards to eliminate greenhouse gas and certain air pollutant emissions from vessels at anchorage or at berth in the contiguous zone of the United States by 2030, with an exception if the standards are not technologically or economically feasible.