Congress creates new clean group with $400 billion for clean power
S. 5651 — National Institutes of Clean Energy Act of 2026 · Filed by Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Sep 30, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill sets up a new federal group called the National Institutes of Clean Power. It is inside the Department of Power. The group gets $400 billion over 10 years, from 2027 to 2036. The money pays for research on solar, wind, batteries, electric cars, and climate science. The bill says the group must help poor and polluted neighborhoods. It must support jobs in union work. It must work with public schools, land-grant schools, and Black schools.
Who it affects
Public schools, land-grant schools, and Black schools will get research money. People in polluted neighborhoods may gain from the research. Workers in union power jobs may get training.
One thing to notice
The bill says the group must get $400 billion over 10 years. But Congress must pass a spending bill each year to give the money.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 1 Independents.
- Sep 30, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Sep 30, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (5,497 characters) on Oct 13, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
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