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 authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of adding the sites associated with the forced relocation and confinement of the Aleut people during World War II in Alaska as a unit of the National Park System.
would amend Title VI of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a federal renewable electricity standard for retail electricity suppliers and a federal energy efficiency resource standard for electricity and natural gas suppliers.
would require the Administrator of EPA to primarily consider, and to separately report, the domestic benefits of any rule that addresses emissions of carbon dioxide from any existing source or new source that is an electric utility generating unit, in any such rule, and in the regulatory impact analysis for such rule.
would establish the Indian River Lagoon Nutrient Removal Assistance Grant Program.
would establish national goals for the reduction and recycling of municipal solid waste, address the growing problem of marine debris, and require the Administrator of EPA to promulgate regulations to attain those goals.
would cap the emissions of greenhouse gases through a requirement to purchase carbon permits and distribute the proceeds of such purchases to eligible individuals.
would promote the transportation of liquefied natural gas from the United States on United States flag vessels.
would reauthorize the National Estuary Programs.
would amend the Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self- Determination Act of 2005.
would provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation located in Bethel, Alaska.