EPA funds research to clean up toxic sites and recover valuable minerals.

What it does

The bill lets the EPA set up a 10-year program. It gives money to companies, nonprofits, and government groups. These groups develop ways to recover valuable materials from polluted industrial sites. The EPA can give out up to $10 million per year total. Each project can get up to $3 million.

Who it affects

Companies and nonprofits that work on cleaning up toxic sites benefit from the money. People who live near polluted industrial sites benefit from the cleanup.

One thing to notice

The program runs for 10 years and then stops. Work may not finish if cleanup takes longer than 10 years.

From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.

Where it stands

1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.

• Jul 9, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
• Jul 9, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
• Jul 14, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
• Jul 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 48 - 0”
• Sep 15, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote”
• Sep 15, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”

Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.

Money around this bill

1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.

Those reports show $660,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 66 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.

More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.

August Pfluger, who sponsored the bill, received $1,054,325 from PACs for the 2026 election.

• Americans for Prosperity — $660,000 in 1 report

Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.

Words to know

• polluted industrial sites — Factories and plants that have contaminated the land around them.
• valuable materials — Minerals and metals that are worth money and hard to find.
• 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.