News & Analysis In the Congress

Volume 55 Issue 2

would provide long-term water supply and regulatory reliability to drought-stricken California.

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Committee Action

would require the Secretary of the Interior to annually submit to Congress, and make publicly available on a website, a report on decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipeline

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Bills Introduced

which would reauthorize certain U.S. Geological Survey water data enhancement programs, was passed by the House.

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Chamber Action

would amend Title 23, U.S. Code, to establish a grant program to rebuild and improve transportation infrastructure at urban waterfronts. 

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Bills Introduced

which would establish the Chesapeake National Recreation Area as a unit of the National Park System, was passed by the Senate.

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Chamber Action

would direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to establish a wildfire technology testbed pilot program.

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Committee Action

would amend FIFRA and the FWPCA to clarify congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters.

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Committee Action

would prohibit drilling in the outer continental shelf and prohibit coal leases on federal land.

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Bills Introduced

which would assist tribal governments in the management of buffalo and buffalo habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land, was passed by the Senate.

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Chamber Action

would require the administrator of NOAA to provide support to state governments in the production by those governments of quadrennial state climate assessments. 

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Bills Introduced