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Austria · National Council · 7 December 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rupert Doppler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Bedrohung heimischer Arten durch den asiatischen Marienkäfer
Austria · National Council · 7 December 2011
Mündliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Ruperta Lichtenecker (Grüne) an den Bundesminister für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend Dr. Reinhold Mitterlehner betreffend einen Entwurf für das Energieeffizienzgesetz <br><br>Wie erklären Sie, dass es Ihnen in den fast zwei Jahren seit Beschlussfassung der "Energiestrategie 2020" nicht gelungen ist, einen Entwurf für das als Schlüsselmaßnahme angekündigte Energieeffizienzgesetz vorzulegen?
Austria · National Council · 7 December 2011
Austria · National Council · 7 December 2011
Antrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Wolfgang Spadiut, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend zwingende Fruchtbarkeitstests von männlichen Zuchttieren vor Verkauf
United States · United States House of Representatives · 7 December 2011
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2011
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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2011
49 Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce an energy efficiency scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39182/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2011
48 Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is an independent body or person appointed by legislation for a member of the public to turn to to deal with a complaint about RTE, as the national broadcaster, not reporting on a public interest matter on which it was notified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39144/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2011
47 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will guarantee that all eligible households on the waiting list for the warmer homes scheme in County Mayo will have all the required work carried out by an agreed date. [39089/11]
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2011
LIHEAP Protection Act - Makes appropriations for FY2012 for the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Expresses the sense of the Senate that this Act should be implemented in a manner consistent with the Budget Control Act of 2011, and that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) should: (1) continue and expedite efforts to identify best practices used by LIHEAP grant recipients; (2) provide training and technical assistance to such grant recipients; (3) recommend policy changes, and assess and mitigate risk at governmental levels in order to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse; and (4) strengthen the Program so all funds reach the households who need them the most.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2011
Jobs Creation Act - Title I: Tax Incentives - Subtitle A: Payroll Tax Holiday - Amends the Tax Relief, Unemployment Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 to: (1) extend through 2012 the 2% reduction in employment tax rates for employees and self-employed individuals (payroll tax holiday), (2) allow a 2% reduction of the employment tax rate for employers and tax-exempt organizations, and (3) allow an additional 2% reduction in the tax rate for self-employed individuals. Subtitle B: American Opportunity - American Opportunity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 25% of a qualified equity investment in a qualified small business entity (angel investment tax credit). Defines "qualified small business entity" as a domestic corporation or partnership that: (1) is a small business headquartered in the United States; (2) is engaged in a high technology trade or business; (3) has been in existence for less than five years as of the date of the qualified equity investment; and (4) employs less than 100 full-time employees, more than 50% of whom perform substantially all of their services in the United States. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to $500 million for each of calendar years 2011 through 2015. Subtitle C: Extension of Expiring Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend for one year: (1) bonus depreciation and the 100% expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; (2) the election to accelerate the alternative minimum tax (AMT) credit in lieu of bonus depreciation; (3) the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses; (4) the tax credit for increasing research activities; (5) accelerated depreciation for qualified leasehold improvements, qualified restaurant buildings and improvements, and qualified retail improvements; (6) the tax deductions for charitable contributions of food inventory and book inventories to public elementary or secondary schools; and (7) the tax deduction for corporate contributions of computer technology or equipment for educational purposes. Title II: Infrastructure Provisions - Revises the state infrastructure bank program to make $10 billion available to the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to make a special single allocation to each state for deposit into the state infrastructure bank. Authorizes a state to use 20% of allocated funds for: (1) investigating the viability of identifying revenue sources for repayment capital transportation projects, (2) technical assistance, (3) promotion to potential borrowers, and (4) other activities to enhance the project pipeline. Directs the Secretary to make allocations to each state that elects not to establish, or is prohibited by state law from establishing, an infrastructure bank of: (1) 20% of funds that would otherwise be allocated to the state for such activities, or (2) 10% of funds that would otherwise be allocated for other surface transportation projects. Appropriates $25 billion to the Secretary for: (1) certain highway improvement projects (including bridges on public roads), (2) seismic retrofit and painting of bridges, and (3) mitigation costs to address adverse impacts of projects. Prescribes the federal share of project costs at up to 100%. Makes $800 million available to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for state water pollution control revolving funds and state drinking water treatment revolving loan funds. Title III: Regulatory Reform - Subtitle A: Clearing Unnecessary Regulatory Burdens - Clearing Unnecessary Regulatory Burdens Act or the CURB Act - Requires each federal agency to: (1) report to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on the costs and benefits of each significant regulatory action and of identified alternatives; (2) develop or have written procedures for the approval of significant guidance documents; (3) maintain on its website a list of such documents in effect; (4) establish and advertise on its website a means for the public to electronically submit comments on such documents and a request for issuance, reconsideration, modification, or rescission of such documents; and (5) publish a notice in the Federal Register announcing that a draft of an economically significant guidance document is available, make such document publicly available, invite comment on such draft, and respond to such comments. Defines a "significant regulatory action" as any regulatory action that is likely to result in a regulation that may: (1) have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more or adversely affect in a material way the economy, a sector of the economy, productivity, competition, jobs, the environment, public health or safety, or state, local, or tribal governments or communities; (2) create a serious inconsistency or otherwise interfere with an action taken or planned by another agency; (3) materially alter the budgetary impact of entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan programs or the rights and obligations of recipients thereof; or (4) raise novel legal or policy issues arising out of legal mandates and the priorities, principles, and provisions of this Act. Authorizes an agency head, in consultation with the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, to identify a particular document or category of such documents for which the procedures of this Act are not feasible or appropriate. Allows a reduction or waiver of civil penalties on small entities for failure to comply with collection of information or recordkeeping requirements. Subtitle B: EPA Regulatory Relief - EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 - Provides that the following rules shall have no force or effect and shall be treated as though they had never taken effect: (1) the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters; (2) the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Area Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers; (3) the Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units; and (4) Identification of Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials That are Solid Waste. Requires the EPA Administrator, in place of such rules, to promulgate within 15 months regulations for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers and process heaters and commercial and industrial solid waste incinerator units subject to such rules, that: (1) establish maximum achievable control technology standards, performance standards, and other requirements for hazardous air pollutants or solid waste combustion under the Clean Air Act; and (2) identify non-hazardous secondary materials that, when used as fuels or ingredients in combustion units of such boilers, heaters, or incinerator units, are solid waste under the Solid Waste Disposal Act for purposes of determining the extent to which such combustion units are required to meet emission standards for such pollutants under such Act. Requires the Administrator to establish compliance dates for such standards and requirements after considering compliance costs, non-air quality health and environmental impacts and energy requirements, the feasibility of implementation, the availability of equipment, suppliers, and labor, and potential net employment impacts. Sets forth guidelines for such rules and regulations, including requiring the Administrator to: (1) ensure that emissions standards for existing and new sources can be met under actual operating conditions consistently and concurrently with emission standards for all other air pollutants regulated by the rule for the source category, and (2) impose the least burdensome regulatory alternative for each regulation promulgated. Requires the Administrator to publish a list of nonhazardous secondary materials that are not solid waste when combusted in units designed for energy recovery. Specifies material to be included in such list. Title IV: Workforce Development - Subtitle A: Job Training Program Consolidation - Job Training Program Consolidation Act of 2011 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to study the effectiveness of current federal job training programs and the consolidation of duplicative job training programs. Requires the Director to prepare recommendations for legislation that: (1) reduce the number and costs of job training programs, and (2) consolidate all such programs under a single agency that emphasizes job training that develops skills needed by state or local employers. Prescribes uses of saved funds due to recommended legislation, including: (1) half to increase funds for individual training accounts of adults and dislocated workers, and (2) half for federal debt reduction. Subtitle B: Innovation and Job Creation - National Innovation and Job Creation Act of 2011 - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the National Innovation Council to: (1) formulate federal innovation policy, and (2) provide financial assistance for state and local innovation initiatives. Transfers to the Council several other specified federal programs. Establishes the National Innovation Council Board. Establishes within the Council the CLUSTER (Competitive Leadership for the United States Through its Economic Regions) Information Center (CLIC). Directs the CLIC to maintain a publicly available registry of CLUSTER Initiatives and CLUSTER Programs. Directs the Council to award grants to eligible entities to operate a CLUSTER Grant Program for the award of grants to CLUSTER Initiatives. Directs the Council to award: (1) competitive National Sector Research grants to eligible companies and joint ventures to encourage innovation through research partnerships between U.S. academic institutions and industry research alliances, (2) Productivity Enhancement Research grants to U.S. academic institutions and to joint ventures composed of academic institutions and private companies to support early-staged research into methods of increasing industry productivity and innovation, (3) State Innovation-Based Economic Development Partnership grants to state economic development entities to spur innovation or productivity activities, and (4) Technology Diffusion grants to manufacturing extension partnership centers to promote the diffusion of existing technological innovations to companies in which such innovations are underutilized. Title V: Offsets - Subtitle A: Surtax on High-income Taxpayers - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an additional 2% tax in taxable years beginning after 2012 and before 2023 on the modified adjusted gross income of any individual taxpayer in excess of $1 million. Subtitle B: Closing Big Oil Tax Loopholes - Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny to any major integrated oil company (an oil company which had gross receipts in excess of $1 billion for its last taxable year ending during 2005 and an average daily worldwide production of crude oil of at least 500,000 barrels for a taxable year): (1) a foreign tax credit if such company is a dual capacity taxpayer (a person who is subject to a levy of a foreign country or U.S. possession and who receives a specific economic benefit from such country or possession directly or indirectly); (2) the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, natural gas, or primary products thereof; (3) the tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs; (4) the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells; and (5) the tax deduction for qualified tertiary injectant expenses. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to grant royalty relief (suspension of royalties) for natural gas production from certain deep wells and deep water oil and natural gas production in the Outer Continental Shelf.
Austria · National Council · 6 December 2011
Antrag der Abgeordneten Ing. Norbert Hofer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Bundesgesetz über mineralische Rohstoffe, über die Änderung des ArbeiternehmerInnenschutzgesetzes und des Arbeitsinspektionsgesetzes 1993 (Mineralrohstoffgesetz - MinroG), BGBl. I Nr. 38/1999, geändert wird
Austria · National Council · 6 December 2011
Antrag der Abgeordneten Dietmar Keck, Ing. Peter Westenthaler, Franz Eßl, Bernhard Vock, Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Wolfgang Pirklhuber, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Massentötungen von Hunden in der Ukraine
Austria · National Council · 6 December 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Harald Jannach, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Pestizid im Grundwasserstrom von Korneuburg
Austria · National Council · 6 December 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Günther Kräuter, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Kraftwerksprojekte in der Steiermark
Austria · National Council · 6 December 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Gerhard Köfer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundeskanzler betreffend Atomkraftwerk Krško
Austria · National Council · 6 December 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Erwin Preiner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Erkenntnisse aus den Gutachten zum geplanten Projekt Reststoffdeponie im burgenländischen Neudorf
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
241 Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total funding available to Clare County Council for energy efficiency retrofits in council houses and the amounts claimed or drawn down by the council in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38627/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
221 Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Communications Regulator, ComReg, has estimated to him or his officials the amount of additional licence fee income that might be generated by lowering to the draft condition of 70% of population the coverage requirement under the new spectrum licences in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. [38543/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
220 Deputy Dominic Hannigan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there has been any discussions about the ESB extending their meter reading service to six times a year as opposed to the current four times a year with the additional two bills calculated on estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38531/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
219 Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider allowing angling clubs or volunteers to carry out some rehabilitation works on spawning beds in County Donegal rivers that are listed by him as closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38477/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
218 Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated cost to his Department of a 2% increase in the standard rate of VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38459/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
217 Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the increments made payable to public sector workers within his Department in the years 2010 and 2011; the increments due in 2012 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38355/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
216 Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his reasons for legislating for offshore gas storage facilities; the main issues this Bill will tackle; when he expects the Bill to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38350/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
215 Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his reasons for legislating for geothermal energy; the main issues this Bill will tackle; when he expects the Bill to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38349/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
214 Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants and amounts paid by him to community and voluntary groups in Galway city and county to date in 2011; and if he will list the chairperson, secretary and treasurer of each group that was a beneficiary of same. [38336/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2011
213 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is prepared to issue a policy decision, as allowed for under legislation, to eliminate the blockade in the establishment of a company (details supplied) in which a €500 million investment is at stake, involving the employment of 350 persons at the construction phase. [38879/11]
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 2011
Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to revise the formula for a state's allotment percentage for low-income home energy assistance to make it the percentage the state would have received under such Act as originally enacted in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981.
European Union · European Commission · 6 December 2011
United States · United States Senate · 5 December 2011
Germany · German Bundestag · 5 December 2011
Germany · German Bundestag · 5 December 2011
Gefahrenlagen und Abwehrmaßnahmen, die Situation in Deutschland, medizinische Versorgung, kritische Infrastrukturen (Verkehr, Energie, IT, Lebensmittel, Trinkwasser, Warnsysteme), Forschungsbedarf, zukünftige Arbeit der Schutzkommission
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 5 December 2011
Motie Van Tongeren / Van Veldhoven over het EU-doel voor schone energie
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 5 December 2011
Motie Van der Werf / Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink over het decentraal opwekken van energie
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 5 December 2011
Motie Ouwehand over energie afkomstig uit de bont- en bio-industrie
Austria · National Council · 2 December 2011
Bericht des Ausschusses für Wirtschaft und Industrie über die Regierungsvorlage (1387 d.B.): Bundesgesetz, mit dem ein Bundesgesetz über das Verbot der geologischen Speicherung von Kohlenstoffdioxid erlassen wird und das Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfungsgesetz 2000, das Bundes-Umwelthaftungsgesetz, die Gewerbeordnung 1994 sowie das Mineralrohstoffgesetz geändert werden
United States · United States House of Representatives · 2 December 2011
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 2011
North American Energy Access Act - Prohibits construction, operation, or maintenance of the oil pipeline and related facilities described in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Keystone XL Pipeline Project issued by the Department of State on August 26, 2011 (including any modified version of that pipeline and related facilities), unless it is in compliance with the terms of a permit prescribed under this Act. Instructs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to issue, within 30 days after receipt of an application, a permit for such pipeline and related facilities implemented in accordance with such Final EIS. Deems a permit to have been issued if FERC has not acted upon a permit application within 30 days after receipt. Declares FERC approval a prerequisite to authorization for a permit applicant to make substantial modifications to either the pipeline route or any other term of the Final EIS. Directs FERC to: (1) enter into a memorandum of understanding with the state of Nebraska for review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 of any modification to the proposed pipeline route, and (2) complete consideration and approval of such modification within 30 days after receiving the governor's approval. Deems approval to have been issued if FERC has not acted within 30 days after receiving an application for approval of a modification. Declares a permit issued under this Act to be the sole legal authority to construct, operate, and maintain the Keystone XL Pipeline Project and related facilities.
Germany · German Bundestag · 2 December 2011
Zeitplan und Inhalt der angekündigten Novelle des KWK-Gesetzes, von der Bundesregierung in Auftrag gegebene, möglicherweise zu optimistische Ausbauprognosen der Prognos AG und der Berliner Energieagentur GmbH (BEA) im Vergleich zu anderen Studien und den Zahlen der Übertragungsnetzbetreiber (ÜNB), dennoch Verfehlung des im KWKG verankerten Ausbauziels, Differenzen bei Wirtschaftlichkeit, Vergütungszahlungen, Umlagehöhe, Fördersätzen u. a.<br /> (insgesamt 14 Einzelfragen)
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 2 December 2011
Verslag van de energieraad op 24 november 2011
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 2 December 2011
Geannoteerde Agenda voor de VTE-Raad (Telecom) van 13 december 2011
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 2 December 2011
Reactie op verzoek commissie m.b.t onderhandelingsdocumenten Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) II
Austria · National Council · 1 December 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Bernhard Vock, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Gesundheit betreffend Vorfälle während des islamischen Opferfestes Kurban Bayrami <i>(Verstöße gegen das Tierschutzgesetz)</i>
Austria · National Council · 1 December 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Bernhard Vock, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Inneres betreffend Vorfälle während des islamischen Opferfestes Kurban Bayrami <i>(Verstöße gegen das Tierschutzgesetz)</i>
Austria · National Council · 1 December 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Bernhard Vock, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Gesundheit betreffend amtliches Hunderegister in Niederösterreich
France · Senate · 1 December 2011
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2011
121 Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme regarding energy efficiency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38217/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2011
119 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Dublin City Council has applied for funding for 2012 under the retrofit programme to bring residential stock in Dublin city up to an average BER rating of C1; if he will ensure funding will be made available to the city council if any such application is made. [38138/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2011
115 Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if building regulations that require all new dwellings to have 10 kWh/m2/annum thermal or 4 kWh/m2/annum of electrical energy are being enforced; and the body with responsibility for enforcement. [38072/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2011
114 Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to improve the structures to encourage farmers and others to utilise small wind generation units or anaerobic digesters at farms in order to minimise problems with slurry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38200/11]