Recent Federal Bills

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 prohibit the Administrator of EPA from enforcing a rule or regulation that restricts certain operations of certain electric generating units.

would prohibit states or local governments from prohibiting or limiting the connection, reconnection, modification, installation, transportation, distribution, or expansion of an energy service based on the type or source of energy to be delivered.

would codify certain executive orders relating to nuclear energy.

would amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify the definition of "production facility" to exclude an equipment or device capable of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in a manner that does not separate plutonium from other transuranic elements.

would prohibit states and local governments from prohibiting or limiting the connection, reconnection, modification, installation, transportation, distribution, or expansion of an energy service based on the type or source of energy to be delivered.

would require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress a report on the promotion of certain policies regarding the effects of sea-level rise on the statehood and maritime zones of countries.

would reduce the health risks of heat by establishing the National Integrated Heat Health Information System within NOAA and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat preparedness, planning, and response.

would require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish an excess urban heat mitigation grant program.

would require the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to conduct an economic impact study of the financial costs of extreme heat.

would repeal an EPA rule relating to NESHAPs: coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units review of the residual risk and technology review.