Below are summaries of Bills Introduced, Committee Reports, Chamber Actions, and Public Laws reported in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update.
would promote the recycling of vessels in the United States.
would designate and expand wilderness areas in Olympic National Forest in Washington, and designate certain rivers in Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild and scenic rivers.
would provide for enhanced federal efforts concerning prevention, education, treatment, and research activities related to Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, including the establishment of a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee.
would expedite certain forest management activities on National Forest System lands when developed through a collaborative process of interested parties, require bonds to be posted when legal challenges to certain forest management activities are initiated, modify the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, and authorize additional funding sources for forest management activities.
would amend the CAA to prohibit the regulation of emissions of carbon dioxide from new or existing power plants under certain circumstances.
would require a study on the public health and environmental impacts of the production, transportation, storage, and use of petroleum coke.
would extend the moratorium on oil and gas leasing and related activities in certain areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
would clarify congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters.
would direct the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama.
would direct FEMA to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study on urban flooding.