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Committee advances bill requiring energy‑use reporting by large cryptocurrency miners
Summary
House Bill 1210, reported by the House Environmental Committee, would require large‑scale cryptocurrency mining operations to report energy consumption and prompt a departmental impact report; supporters cited rising demand, opponents warned of government overreach.
The House Environmental Committee voted to report House Bill 1210 to the full House after the bill sponsor described requirements for large‑scale cryptocurrency mining operations to report energy‑consumption information and urged the Department to produce an impact report.
"This is my bill. The purpose is to identify, and learn more about the growing cryptocurrency mining operations in Pennsylvania," the bill sponsor told the committee. "The bill requires cryptocurrency mining operations to report information about what…
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