Relocate the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Guy Reschenthaler · Pennsylvania · Republican

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Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Occurrences

introduced bipartisan legislation to relocate the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Reschenthaler and other lawmakers introduced legislation to move the Department of Energy office to Pittsburgh.

Press Releases
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H.R.4415 Sponsored — To require the Secretary of Energy to relocate the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Reschenthaler sponsored legislation requiring the Energy Department's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to move to Pittsburgh.

Legislation
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Evidence

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The DOE office page lists the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management at the Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, and names current leadership and program offices; it does not show a Pittsburgh relocation.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official DOE contact information still places the office in Washington, not Pittsburgh.

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Office of Fossil Energy | Department of Energy
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DOE’s current leadership-and-offices page places the Office of Fossil Energy under the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and shows the department’s live organizational structure in June 2026, with no indication that the office has been moved to Pittsburgh.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): DOE’s current organization still treats Fossil Energy as a Washington-based DOE program office, not a relocated Pittsburgh office.

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Our Leadership & Offices | Department of Energy
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DOE says HGEO headquarters are in downtown Washington, D.C., and Germantown, Maryland; it separately lists NETL offices including Pittsburgh.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): As of the current DOE page crawled in the lookback window, the relevant DOE office remains headquartered in Washington/Germantown, not relocated to Pittsburgh, although NETL has a Pittsburgh site.

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About the Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office | Department of Energy
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GovInfo lists H.R. 4415 as introduced by Mr. Reschenthaler and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, with the title requiring relocation to Pittsburgh.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Reschenthaler took concrete legislative action by introducing H.R. 4415, but the official record shows only introduction and committee referral, not enactment or completed relocation.

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H.R. 4415 (IH) - Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Relocation Act of 2025 - GovInfo
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): never. unknown A for effort

The promised outcome was relocation of the DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to Pittsburgh. Current official federal listings still place the office at DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C., with related offices in the D.C./Maryland area, while Pittsburgh is only associated with NETL facilities. Reschenthaler did materially attempt the promise by introducing H.R. 4415 in 2025 to require the relocation, but the bill appears only introduced and referred to committee, with no enactment or completed relocation. Because the outcome itself has not been delivered, this is a failed promise with serious legislative effort credited.

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Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): never. unknown A for effort

As of June 12, 2026, the Department of Energy still lists the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management at the Forrestal Building in Washington, D.C., not Pittsburgh. Reschenthaler did make a serious legislative effort: he sponsored H.R. 4415, the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Relocation Act of 2025, introduced on July 15, 2025, and publicly promoted the relocation. But the bill's latest status is only introduction and referral to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, with no House passage, Senate passage, enactment, or actual relocation. Under federal office-context timing and credit rules, that is a meaningful attempt but not delivery of the promised outcome.

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