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 extend the tax credit for energy-efficient new homes for one year.
would extend the tax credit for energy-efficient existing homes for one year.
would allow a credit against income tax for facilities using a qualified methane conversion technology to provide transportation fuels and chemicals.
would amend the ESA to require review of the economic cost of adding a species to the list of endangered or threatened species.
would require DOE to establish an energy efficiency retrofit pilot program.
would provide legal certainty to property owners along the Red River in Texas.
would express the sense of the Senate on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the April 25, 2015, earthquake in Nepal.
would prohibit EPA from implementing a proposed rule relating to the definition of ''waters of the United States'' under the CWA, or any substantially similar rule, until a Supplemental Scientific Review Panel and an Ephemeral and Intermittent Streams Advisory Committee produce certain reports.
would improve the safety of hazardous materials rail transportation.
would establish a moratorium on oil and gas-related seismic activities off the coast of Florida.