REPEAT Project: U.S. Climate and Energy Legislation Summaries

United States legislation from the 117th Congress (2021-2023) is summarized in this dataset. It provides section-by-section details of climate and energy policy measures within major bills, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Build Back Better Act, and Inflation Reduction Act. The spreadsheets also document how policies were modeled or considered by the REPEAT Project's analysis.

Use Cases

• Tracking policy changes across different versions of the Build Back Better Act based on the legislative evolution documentation.
• Comparing modeled impacts of climate provisions between the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act.
• Analyzing the scope of energy-related subsidies and investments authorized in the 117th Congress based on the section-by-section summaries.

Strengths

• Covers five specific, major pieces of U.S. federal legislation from a defined congressional session (117th Congress, 2021-2023).
• Provides traceability of policy changes for the Build Back Better Act and Inflation Reduction Act, indicating a detailed revision history.
• Authored by a researcher from Princeton University and associated with the REPEAT Project, suggesting an academic and modeling focus.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, column names, and specific update dates are not provided across any source, limiting assessment of scale and freshness.
• The authors include a caveat that summaries may contain errors, placing verification responsibility on the user.
• The dataset's structure and completeness are unclear as it is described only as a public spreadsheet with separate worksheets.

Provenance

Source

Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University, REPEAT Project.

Collection Method

Manual compilation and summary of legislative text, with documentation of modeling considerations.

Time Range

2021-2023

Geography

United States