Government funds research to make cement and concrete cleaner
H.R. 1534 — IMPACT Act · Filed by Max Miller (R-OH) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Feb 24, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill sets up a research program in the Department of Energy. It pays for studies on cleaner cement, concrete, and asphalt. The program funds test projects in different regions. It helps companies use these new methods. The program lasts seven years and must report every two years.
Who it affects
Cement, concrete, and asphalt companies may use the new research. Universities and research groups will do the studies. States and cities may need to update building rules.
One thing to notice
The bill pays for research and help, but does not force companies to use cleaner methods. Companies may not adopt them if they cost too much.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Feb 24, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 24, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology”
- Mar 24, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Babin moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
- Mar 25, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
12 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 22 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $8,838,760 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 93% of bills with any report.
Max Miller, who sponsored the bill, received $728,249 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Google Client Services LLC — $6,920,000 in 2 reports
- Amrize North America Inc. — $550,000 in 3 reports
- Portland Cement Association — $550,000 in 2 reports
- Sierra Club — $180,000 in 2 reports
- National Ready Mixed Concrete Association — $158,760 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Department of Energy — The federal agency that runs energy research and programs.
- test projects — Projects that show if a new idea works in the real world.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (14,918 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 24, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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