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Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Anton Heinzl, Andreas Ottenschläger, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Wasserstraßengesetz geändert wird
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Albert Steinhauser, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz über ergänzende Rechte von Umweltorganisationen und Einzelpersonen im Umweltrecht (Bundes-Umweltrechtschutzgesetz- BURG)
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Christiane Brunner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Bundesgesetz zur Einhaltung von Höchstmengen von Treibhausgasemissionen und zur Erarbeitung von wirksamen Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz (Klimaschutzgesetz - KSG) BGBl. I Nr. 106/2011, zuletzt geändert mit BGBl. I Nr. 58/2017, geändert wird
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Ökologisierung des Steuersystems
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Ausbau der Forschung im Bereich erneuerbarer Energie
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend bundesweit einheitliche Emissionsschutzgesetze
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend konsequente Umsetzung der COP21 - Beschlüsse
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Forcierung thermischer Sanierung öffentlicher Gebäude
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Antrag der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Entwicklung eines österreichischen Resilienzplans
Austria · National Council · 7 June 2017
Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Fluorierte Treibhausgase-Gesetz 2009 geändert wird
United States · United States Senate · 7 June 2017
United States · United States Senate · 7 June 2017
United States · United States Senate · 7 June 2017
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 2017
Fight Russian Corruption Act This bill amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require the Department of State to establish the Office of Anti-Corruption relating to Illicit Russian Financial Activities in Europe. Such office shall: (1) analyze financial networks of the Russian Federation operating in European countries that relate to real estate, energy, media, infrastructure, and other sectors; and (2) train U.S. liaison officers to serve in key U.S. diplomatic and consular posts in such countries to cooperate with foreign partners in uncovering and prosecuting illicit Russian financial activity. The bill authorizes the State Department to provide assistance to European countries to combat corruption, including to support: (1) activities of such office; (2) foreign programs focused on investigative journalism and independence of the media environment to expose Russian corruption; and (3) activities in Europe related to anti-corruption, anti-propoganda, and anti-Russian malign influence. The State Department shall seek to work with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to: (1) elevate anti-corruption as an element of NATO's Readiness Action Plan, (2) task the NATO Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence and Warning with monitoring Russian influence in NATO member states, and (3) prioritize the combating of Russian influence under the NATO-European Union framework. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence shall submit a National Intelligence Estimate on: (1) purchases made in the last five years by individuals and entities of key sectors in European countries, particularly purchases that provide monopolistic control of a sector; and (2) the individuals and entities making such purchases, including any links to the Russian Federation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 2017
Pipeline Fairness and Transparency Act This bill amends the Natural Gas Act to address eminent domain, environmental review for interstate natural gas pipeline projects, and the environmental impacts of natural gas pipeline projects on national scenic trails. This includes requiring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to hold public meetings in each county (or equivalent subdivision) in which a project will be located.
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 June 2017
Reactie op verzoek commissie om een overzicht van alle pijplijnprojecten in het kader van het Kustpact
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 2 June 2017
Antwoorden op vragen commissie over het rapport Resultaten verantwoordingsonderzoek 2016 bij het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu (XII)
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 2 June 2017
Antwoorden op vragen commissie over het Jaarverslag Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu 2016
Austria · National Council · 1 June 2017
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Harald Jannach, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend HCB und weitere Schwermetalle im Görtschitztal
Austria · National Council · 1 June 2017
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Josef A. Riemer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit und Frauen betreffend hoher Anteil an importierten Geflügelfleisch in Gastronomieunternehmen
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2017
Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2017
190. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that applied for AEOS that have received their total 2016 payment, by county; the number of persons that have passed all payment approval checks and are awaiting their 2016 payment; the number of AEOS recipients that have yet to receive payment by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26377/17]
Germany · German Bundestag · 1 June 2017
Unterstützung verbindlicher Ziele zur Reduzierung des Ressourcenverbrauchs und Verbesserung des Ökodesigns von Produkten, Befürwortung von Instrumenten zur Abfallvermeidung auf EU-Ebene, u.a. bindende Abfallvermeidungs- bzw. Wiederverwendungsziele sowie erweiterte Herstellerverantwortung auf alle Abfallströme, Berechnung der Recyclingquote, zusätzliche Berichtspflichten für die Dokumentation einzelner Abfallströme, Durchsetzung einer EU-weiten Bioabfallsammlung sowie eines Pfandsystems; fehlende Beantwortung der Fragen des European Environmental Bureau<br /> (insgesamt 26 Einzelfragen)
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 1 June 2017
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 1 June 2017
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 1 June 2017
Wijziging van de begrotingsstaten van het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu (XII) voor het jaar 2017 (wijziging samenhangende met de Voorjaarsnota)
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 1 June 2017
Beleidsreactie op eindadvies bestuurlijke werkgroep evaluatie geurregelgeving veehouderij
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 1 June 2017
Brief van de staatssecretarissen van Economische Zaken en van Infrastructuur en Milieu over het bericht dat de Nederlandse veestapel met 500 duizend koeien moet krimpen om te voldoen aan de doelstellingen van het Klimaatakkoord (Nu.nl, 1 juni 2017)
Germany · German Bundestag · 31 May 2017
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) als Sport, Entwicklung der MMA-Szene in Deutschland, Nutzung geförderter Sportstätten, Finanzierung und Gemeinnützigkeit von MMA-Clubs bzw. MMA-Vereinen, Jugendschutzregelungen betr. Verbreitung von MMA-Angeboten; Rolle von MMA in der rechtsextremen Szene und Hooligan-Szene, Kampfsportturniere von Rechtsextremen, Einflussnahme russischer Rechtsextremisten, Beobachtung durch den Verfassungsschutz, Verbindungen der MMA-Szene zum Rocker-Milieu und der organisierten Kriminalität, Prävention von Gewalt und Rechtsextremismus im Kampfsport, Forschungsprojekte zu MMA<br /> (insgesamt 24 Einzelfragen)
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 31 May 2017
Brief van de staatssecretaris van Infrastructuur en Milieu over het bericht ‘Trump trekt zich terug uit klimaatakkoord Parijs’ (Nos.nl, 31 mei 2017)
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 31 May 2017
Brief van de minister van Infrastructuur en Milieu over het bericht ‘Filetaks in Europa voor alle voertuigen’ (Telegraaf.nl, 30 mei 2017)
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2017
544. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will be paid an AEOS payment which was due to them in December 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25723/17]
France · Senate · 29 May 2017
European Union · EUR-Lex · 29 May 2017
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 2017
Public Health Violence Prevention Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Violence Prevention in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take over the duties and authorities relating to violence prevention from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The National Center for Violence Prevention, to address violence and prevention as health issues, must establish: (1) the Public Health Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to public health departments, schools of public health, criminal justice agencies, and public school districts, with preference given to projects serving areas with the highest rates of violence or the highest increases in violence; and (2) the Private Health Care Sector Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to health care providers, community-based organizations, and academic medical centers. The bill establishes the National Health Violence Prevention Program with the following offices and programs: the Office of Applied Violence Prevention Research, the National Advisory Board on Violence Prevention, the Violence Prevention Training Program, the Office of Data Collection and Evaluation, and the Office of Violence Prevention Education and Outreach. The Department of Health and Human Services must rename the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, and Environmental Health as the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, and Environmental Health.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 2017
Jobs and Trade Competitiveness Act This bill establishes: (1) an Office of the Congressional Trade Enforcer; (2) an Office of Market Access Assistance; (3) a Trade Enforcement Division within the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), headed by a Deputy U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Enforcement; (4) the Office of Trade Assistance for Small Business; (5) the Chief Manufacturing Negotiator; and (6) the Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO Dispute Settlement to provide advice to Congress on the operation of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization. The bill amends the Tariff Act of 1930 regarding: (1) the imposition of countervailing duties to address subsidies relating to fundamentally undervalued currencies; and (2) the establishment of procedures for the protection of business proprietary information from public disclosure, with respect to the investigation of claims of evasion of antidumping and countervailing duty orders. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit for insourcing expenses and to deny a deduction for outsourcing expenses. The USTR shall identify those foreign country trade practices that cause negative environmental impacts on human, animal, or plant life or health, or exhaustible natural resources in the United States, the foreign country, a third country, or internationally, and periodically report on such practices. The Government Accountability Office shall report assessing progress in: (1) achieving compliance by other countries with commitments made under specified international fora, and (2) ensuring that goods made with child labor do not enter the customs territory of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 2017
Beach Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise and reauthorize through FY2021 a grant program for monitoring, and notifying the public of, any pathogens in coastal recreation waters bordering public beaches. The bill reauthorizes through FY2021 the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000. The bill establishes requirements with respect to: (1) using rapid testing methods to detect unsafe levels of pathogens or pathogen indicators in such coastal recreation waters, and (2) notifying governmental agencies when pathogens exceed water quality standards. Those methods must provide testing results within four hours of receiving a sample. The applicable state or local government must communicate the presence of any pathogens within two hours of receipt of a water quality sample. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must assess state and local compliance with coastal recreation water quality monitoring and notification legal requirements and grant conditions. The bill limits federal share of grants to non-compliant state or local governments. The Government Accountability Office must review the EPA's compliance assessments and corrective actions. States with coastal recreation waters must adopt the most protective water quality criteria and standards practicable for pathogens. The EPA must: (1) update the national list of beaches that are used by the public regardless of the presence of a lifeguard within 12 months and biennially thereafter (currently, periodically); (2) study the long-term impact of climate change on pathogenic contamination of coastal recreation waters; and (3) study the impacts of excess nutrients on coastal recreation waters.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2017
222. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who applied for AEOS that have received their total 2016 payment by county in tabular form; the number of persons who have passed all payment approval checks and are awaiting their 2016 payment; the number of AEOS recipients who have yet to receive payment by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25155/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2017
218. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an AEOS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25103/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2017
193. Deputy Mary Butler asked the Minister for Health if he will consider the environment in which persons with profound disabilities and very challenging behaviours are able to live, based on community living in a non-medical type setting, in view of the fact they can struggle with the more regimented HIQA requirements based on nursing home criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25231/17]
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
Building an Environment for Helpful, Effective, and Accessible Representation and Decision-making Act or the BE HEARD Act This bill directs the Department of Defense to develop specific training to assist Special Victims' Counsels in recognizing and dealing with the effect of gender differences on victim response to sexual assault. The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces may review for legal error a grant or denial of a petition for a writ of mandamus by the Court of Criminal Appeals upon petition of a sexual assault victim or the accused. Such review shall have priority of consideration to the maximum extent practicable. The bill states that: (1) the designation authority under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to appoint an individual to assume the rights of a victim who is under 18 years old or incompetent is discretionary, and (2) such designation is not required if the military judge determines that a victim who is under 18 years old can adequately represent his or her own interests.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
Swine Waste Infrastructure and Natural Environment Act or the SWINE Act This bill establishes a program to certify environmentally sustainable swine waste disposal technologies and authorizes related tax credits and grants. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) must certify technologies that: eliminate animal discharge into surface waters and groundwater through direct discharge, seepage, or runoff; substantially eliminate atmospheric emissions of ammonia from swine waste; substantially eliminate the emission of odor from swine waste that is detectable beyond the boundaries of the parcel or tract of land on which the swine farm is located; substantially eliminate the release of disease-transmitting vectors and airborne pathogens from swine waste; substantially eliminate nutrient and heavy metal contamination of soil and groundwater from swine waste; and are cost-effective. States may not issue permits, pursuant to any federal law, to a swine farm that is a concentrated animal feeding operation unless the farm disposes of swine waste using a certified technology. The bill amends several agricultural laws to: require USDA to make competitive grants for activities to identify, evaluate, and demonstrate environmentally superior swine waste management technologies; permit the Pork Promotion Board to use its funding for activities related to the grants; and make the installation and maintenance of a certified technology on a swine farm eligible for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) the installation of a certified swine waste disposal technology, and (2) the disposal of swine waste using certified technology.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
Save Our Seas Act of 2017 or the SOS Act of 2017 This bill amends the Marine Debris Act to revise the Marine Debris Program to require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to work with: (1) other agencies to address both land- and sea-based sources of marine debris, and (2) the Department of State and other agencies to promote international action to reduce the incidence of marine debris. The bill also revises the program by allowing NOAA to make sums available for assisting in the cleanup and response required by severe marine debris events. NOAA must prioritize assistance for activities that respond to a severe marine debris event in: (1) a rural or remote community, or (2) a habitat of national concern. The bill urges the President to: (1) work with foreign countries that contribute the most to the global marine debris problem in order to find a solution to the problem; (2) study issues related to marine debris, including the economic impacts of marine debris; and (3) encourage the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to consider the impact of marine debris in relevant future trade agreements. The Interagency Marine Debris Coordinating Committee must expand to include a senior official from the State Department or from the Department of the Interior. This bill reauthorizes for FY2018-FY2022: (1) the Marine Debris Program, (2) an information clearinghouse on marine debris, and (3) enforcement of laws about discarded marine debris from ships.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
Truck, Trailer, and Transport Efficiency Act of 2017 This bill removes trailers that do not emit greenhouse gases in connection with a propulsion system from the scope of the final rule titled "Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles--Phase 2." The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly issued the rule, which created fuel consumption standards and carbon dioxide emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles (e.g., tractors, trucks, vans, and vocational vehicles), on October 25, 2016.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
Environmental Justice Small Grants Program Act of 2017 This bill establishes in the Environmental Protection Agency an Office of Environmental Justice. The office must create an environmental justice grant program that empowers and educates communities that are affected by local environmental or public health issues to understand those issues and identify ways to address them at the local level.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
Executive Office of Environmental Justice Act of 2017 This bill establishes in the Executive Office of the President an Office of Environmental Justice, which must: complete and publish online environmental justice assessments of executive orders and discuss the assessments with the President before the executive orders are signed, review progress being made on implementing environmental justice policies at certain agencies, coordinate community and stakeholder outreach, and ensure that the goals of Executive Order 12898 relating to federal actions to address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income populations are being actively implemented through science-based regulations in the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency. In addition, the bill expands the membership of the Domestic Policy Council to include a representative from the office.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to limit the amount that may be awarded for the costs of litigation in citizen suits. An award of litigation costs may not exceed: (1) an amount that is proportional to the number of successful claims included in the complaint, or (2) the amount of monetary penalties. The award of litigation costs must be based on the prevailing rates in the local market area where the violation occurred for the kind and quality of the services furnished. Citizen suits may not be commenced if the Environmental Protection Agency or a state has commenced and is diligently prosecuting a civil or criminal action through the issuance of a compliance order. The bill provides for certain affirmative defenses for a person who may be liable for the unlawful discharge of a pollutant under the Clean Water Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
Bringing Useful Initiatives for Indian Land Development Act of 2017 or BUIILD Act of 2017 This bill amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to modify the environmental review process used for certain affordable housing activities on Indian reservations. Specifically, the bill allows an Indian tribe that receives federal funds in addition to block grant amounts under the Act to assume all of the responsibilities for environmental review that would apply to the federal agencies providing funds for the project if the grant amount constitutes the largest single source of federal funds that the tribe reasonably expects to commit to the project at the time of environmental review. The bill reauthorizes through FY2025 the block grant program for affordable housing activities on Indian reservations, training and technical assistance for Indian tribes and tribally designated housing entities, and the Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Fund. In addition, the bill increases from 50 years to 99 years the term that tribal trusts or restricted lands may be leased for housing development and residential purposes. Funds provided under a grant under the Act may be used to meet matching or cost participation requirements under other federal or nonfederal programs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
Reaffirms the importance of clean air, clean water, resource conservation, and other policy goals that led to the enactment of existing environmental and public health protections. Affirms the need to achieve environmental justice so that environmental and public health policies adequately and equally protect all Americans. Commends environmental justice advocates for their work to achieve fairer, healthier, more sustainable policies and outcomes. Acknowledges the prevalence of environmental injustices that directly affect the health and well-being of individuals and communities across the country, especially racial minority, rural, indigenous, and low-income communities. Affirms the commitment of the House of Representatives to ameliorating existing environmental injustices and preventing future injustices.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 2017
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to exempt Indian tribes from a requirement to provide compensatory mitigation as a condition of a permit to discharge dredged or fill material into waters of the United States when the permitted activity is conducted on Indian land. If the Indian tribe ceases to maintain the permitted activity on that land, or seeks to abandon that activity without a good faith transfer, the Indian tribe must obtain a permit modification from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps of Engineers may require restoration and rehabilitation of the area.