The Federal Highway Administration proposed to amend its regulations governing national performance management measures to require state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to establish declining carbon dioxide targets and a method for the measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation under Title 23 of the U.S. Code.
The Rural Housing Service, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and Rural Utilities Service updated the definition of "Rural area" for every Rural Development program using the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act definition to conform to the revision to the statutory definition in the 2018 Farm Bill.
DOE and DOT established the Electric Vehicle Working Group to make recommendations regarding the development, adoption, and integration of electric vehicles into U.S. transportation and energy systems.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service announced it intends to issue a series of revised conservation practice standards in the National Handbook of Conservation Practices.
President Joe Biden’s Executive Order No. 14008 of January 2021 called for the Administration to conserve at least 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030. To accomplish this ambitious “30 by 30” effort, the Order directed federal agencies to work with tribal governments, among others, to propose lands and waters as qualifying for conservation. This Comment examines "areas of critical environmental concern" and their potential role in the 30 by 30 program, particularly their potential to enlist tribal governments in helping to manage lands of tribal cultural significance.
On January 28, 2021, President Joseph Biden issued Executive Order No. 14008 initiating the “30 by 30” program to “conserve” 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030, but to date, the Administration has yet to clarify the standards defining "conservation" lands. In September 2021, Nada Culver, the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Chris French, the deputy chief of the Forest Service’s National Forest System (NFS) confirmed at an annual Public Lands Council meeting that they believe the nation’s grazing lands “should [be] include[d]” in the 30 by 30 count.
USDA proposed amendments to the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances section of the agency's organic regulations under the Organic Foods Production Act.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service announced its intention to issue a series of revised conservation practice standards in the National Handbook of Conservation Practices (NHCP) and seeks comment on specified conservation practice standards in the NHCP.
FWS and NOAA announced their intent to draft and seek input on a monument management plan for the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.
The Commodity Credit Corporation seeks comment on the priorities and program design of the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Partnership program that would facilitate the expansion of markets for climate-smart agriculture commodities.