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 preserve the Green Mountain Lookout in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
would reauthorize the weatherization and state energy programs.
would establish state revolving loan funds to repair or replace natural gas distribution pipelines.
would amend title 49, United States Code, to require gas pipeline facilities to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of high-risk pipelines used in commerce.
would prohibit FERC from issuing certain decisions that will raise costs for ratepayers.
would amend the ESA to require the Secretary of the Interior to publish and make available for public comment a draft economic analysis at the time a proposed rule to designate critical habitat is published.
would amend the ESA to conform citizen suits under that Act with other existing law.
would amend the ESA to require disclosure to states of the basis of determinations under such Act in order to ensure use of information provided by state, tribal, and county governments in decisionmaking under such Act.
would amend the ESA to improve the disclosure of certain expenditures under that Act.
would amend the ESA to require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species.