Bill gives mining firms big tax breaks for key metals.
H.R. 8780 — Critical Mineral and Extraction Tax Parity Act · Filed by Blake Moore (R-UT) · 18 cosponsors · Introduced May 13, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill adds new metals to a federal tax credit. Firms that make products from key metals can use it. Key metals include copper, uranium, boron, and phosphate. Extraction costs now count toward the credit. The bill also raises the tax credit rate for metallurgical coal.
Who it affects
Mining and metal-processing firms get substantial tax credits. Regular people pay for the lost tax money. The bill has no rules that firms must pass savings to buyers.
One thing to notice
The bill adds no environmental rules, no water rules, and no job rules. Mining causes well-documented ecological costs.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
18 cosponsors: 18 Republicans.
- May 13, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 13, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
11 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 11 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $20,210,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 25 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 92% of bills with any report.
Blake Moore, who sponsored the bill, received $1,460,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $16,950,000 in 1 report
- National Mining Association — $820,000 in 1 report
- U.S. Travel Association — $800,000 in 1 report
- Information Technology Industry Council — $720,000 in 1 report
- Semi — $470,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- key metals — Metals the country needs for making things, like copper, uranium, boron, and phosphate.
- tax credit — Money the government gives back to a firm to reduce taxes it owes.
- metallurgical coal — Coal used to make steel and other metals in factories.
- extraction — The process of digging metals or coal out of the ground.
- 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.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jun 8, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 Jun 2026 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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