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 provide for the establishment of a Home Energy Savings Retrofit Rebate Program.
would amend FIFRA to require local educational agencies and schools to implement integrated pest management programs to minimize the use of pesticides in schools and provide parents, guardians, and employees with notice of the use of pesticides in schools.
would provide for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the United States to the Tucson Unified School District and to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.
would amend TSCA to prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of the poison sodium fluoroacetate (known as "Compound 1080") and prohibit the use of sodium cyanide for predator control.
would designate drywall manufactured in China a banned hazardous product.
would provide exclusive funding to support fisheries and the communities that rely upon them, clear unnecessary regulatory burdens, and streamline federal fisheries management.
would authorize the issuance of right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines in Glacier National Park.
would convey certain federal land to the city of Yerington, Nevada.
would prohibit the Administrator of EPA from awarding any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other financial assistance under CAA §103 for any program, project, or activity to occur outside the United States, including its territories and possessions.
would amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to reauthorize and improve the Rural Energy for America program.