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Austria · National Council · 3 July 2020
Bericht des Außenpolitischen Ausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (225 d.B.): Satzung der Internationalen Organisation für erneuerbare Energien (IRENA) samt Erklärung der Konferenz
Germany · German Bundestag · 3 July 2020
Systematische Datenerfassung zum CO2-Ausstoß der Bundeswehr, Strategie zur Reduktion der CO2-Emissionen innerhalb von Bundeswehr und NATO, Berücksichtigung der Faktoren CO2-Ausstoß oder Umweltbelastung bei sämtlichen Beschaffungsentscheidungen, simulatorgestützte Ausbildung, Einschränkung von Munitions- und Waffentests, Verzicht auf Wiederinbetriebnahme der Wehrtechnischen Dienststelle 91 (WTD 91) in Meppen, Intensivierung des Einsatzes von Videokonferenztechnik, Digitalisierung interner Verwaltungsprozesse, Einzelmaßnahmen zum Klimaschutz im Gebäudebereich
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 2020
Water for Conservation and Farming Act This bill establishes a funding source for certain water resources development projects in western states. The bill also establishes new water resources development programs, as well as reauthorizes and expands existing ones. Specifically, the bill establishes a Bureau of Reclamation Infrastructure Fund to fund water-related programs, including water reclamation and reuse projects, dam safety projects, and the WaterSMART program (which provides assistance to eligible government entities to increase water supply). Each year from FY2031-FY2061, the Department of the Interior must deposit $300 million of revenues into this fund that would otherwise be deposited into the Reclamation Fund (which currently funds irrigation works in western states). The bill also reauthorizes through FY2025 the WaterSMART program and expands the program, including by expanding the types of entities eligible for assistance. In addition, the bill reauthorizes through FY2024 the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (which provides assistance to watershed groups to address water management needs) and expands the program to include projects that generate environmental benefits. The bill also establishes new programs directed at western states to provide assistance to agricultural producers to create and maintain waterbird and shorebird habitats, award grants to eligible government entities and nonprofit conservation organizations for habitat restoration projects that improve watershed health, and provide assistance to eligible government entities and nonprofit organizations for aquatic ecosystem and restoration projects.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 2020
Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act of 2020 This bill requires the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to establish a Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Assessment and Monitoring Program. Under the program, the USGS must assess, monitor, and conserve saline lake ecosystems in the Great Basin as well as the wildlife that depend on those ecosystems.
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 2 July 2020
Rapport stalbeoordeling
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 2 July 2020
Gewijzigde motie van het lid Kröger over een pilot over de toxiciteitsdruk in kwetsbare gebieden (t.v.v. 28089-175)
Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 1 July 2020
Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Waterstaat · Rechtsgebied: Ruimtelijke ordening en milieu, Waterrecht · Geldig vanaf 2020-07-01
Austria · National Council · 1 July 2020
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Unzureichende Sanierungsrate
Austria · National Council · 1 July 2020
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Johannes Margreiter, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Mobility as a Service
Austria · National Council · 1 July 2020
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Verpflichtender Klimacheck bei Gesetzen und Verordnungen
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 July 2020
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development on the delivery of (1) conservation, and (2) environmental, projects oversea
France · National Assembly · 30 June 2020
M. Raphaël Gérard interroge M. le ministre de l'intérieur sur l'avenir du métier de garde-champêtre. Une mission parlementaire conduite par les députés Alice Thourot et Jean-Michel Fauvergue a donné lieu à un rapport préconisant la fusion des cadres d'emplois de police municipale et de gardes champêtres dans la continuité des études réalisées précédemment par le préfet Jean Ambroggiani en 2009 et les sénateurs François Pillet et René Vandierendonck en 2012. M. le député s'inquiète de la mise en œuvre d'une telle mesure en milieu rural. D'une part, la plupart des petites communes ne sont pas dotées de police municipale. Le décret législatif du 18 avril 1986 approuvant le texte refondu des dispositions législatives en vigueur en matière de régime local prévoit, dans sa disposition transitoire n° 4, que seules les communes comptant plus de 5 000 habitants peuvent décider la création d'une police municipale. Aussi, bien que leur nombre soit en diminution, les gardes champêtres continuent de jouer un rôle fondamental dans les petites communes rurales puisqu'ils concourent à la police des campagnes en application de l'article L. 2213-17 du code des collectivités territoriales. Dans ce cadre, ils exercent des missions de police, mais participent surtout au maintien du lien social et des services publics de proximité dans des territoires marqués par une fracture sociale et territoriale. D'autre part, les missions des agents de police municipale et des gardes-champêtres telles que définies par la loi ne sont pas identiques. La fusion de leurs cadres d'emploi fait courir le risque d'un appauvrissement du futur schéma d'emploi en ce qui concerne les tâches dévolues spécifiquement aux gardes-champêtres en matière de préservation de la biodiversité, en particulier s'agissant de la chasse (article L. 428-20 du code de l'environnement) ou encore de la police de l'eau (article L. 216-3 du code de l'environnement). Dans ce contexte, il lui demande si d'autres pistes ne peuvent pas être envisagées à l'instar de la généralisation des conventions de partenariat entre l'État et les gardes champêtres visant à promouvoir une meilleure collaboration avec les forces de l'ordre et répondre aux enjeux de coordination, maillage territorial et sécurité globale.
Austria · National Council · 30 June 2020
Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Tierversuchsgesetz 2012 geändert wird
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2020
602. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work undertaken to commence a pilot scheme in 2020 modelled on the rural environment protection scheme; the estimated number of farmers that will participate in such a pilot scheme; the estimated funding to be allocated to the pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13431/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2020
305. Deputy Joe O'Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to reviewing the requirement for English language students to enrol in an online course in order to gain an extension to their student visa, in view of the fact contact learning in an English speaking environment is usually the express reason these students have chosen to travel here. [13156/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2020
231. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to schools charging parents for the use of separate stationary equipment for children when they return to school as part of Covid-19 health and safety protocols; if her attention has been further drawn to the inherent cost barrier for families on low or reduced income as a result of Covid-19 and for families that already experience financial difficulties when schools return; the measures she will introduce to prevent the increase in costs for families incurred by Covid-19 health and safety protocols applied to the school environment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13560/20]
France · National Assembly · 30 June 2020
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2020
Ohio River Basin Preparedness Act This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop, implement, and publish an interagency plan for assisting states, Indian tribes, and communities in the Ohio River Basin to prepare for, and respond to, the effects of climate change.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 2020
CRITICAL Act This bill directs the General Services Administration (GSA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of the Interior to take specified actions with respect to electronic recycling and critical mineral extraction. Specifically, the GSA shall establish an electronic recycling program that services each executive agency. The EPA shall (1) establish a program to ensure that electronics collected under the agency recycling program are entered into a certified recycling stream for dismantling and refining by certified entities; (2) ensure that refined critical minerals developed through the certified recycling stream program are retained in the United States for use by industry; and (3) award prizes for the development of E-waste recycling systems, with a goal of increasing the collection of recyclable electronics. Interior shall study and report on critical mineral extraction, evaluating, among other things, the total quantity of recoverable critical minerals from all certified recycling streams, as compared to the total quantity of critical minerals necessary for manufacturing, consumer products, and national defense in the United States.
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 30 June 2020
Motie van het lid Laçin over de rol van luchtvervuiling in de IJmond en de regio Haarlem in relatie tot het aantal kankergevallen
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 30 June 2020
Motie van het lid Kröger over een pilot over de toxiciteitsdruk in kwetsbare gebieden
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 30 June 2020
Motie van het lid Laçin over inspelen op het advies van het Europese chemieagentschap over kunstgrasvelden met rubberkorrels
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 30 June 2020
Motie van het lid Ziengs c.s. over aansluiting van provincies bij het asbestfonds
Austria · National Council · 29 June 2020
Bericht des Ausschusses für Wirtschaft, Industrie und Energie über die Regierungsvorlage (68 d.B.): Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Bundes-Energieeffizienzgesetz geändert wird
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2020
Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act This bill expands the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to act as the lead agency for the purpose of coordinating all applicable federal authorizations and environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) with respect to authorizing a natural gas pipeline project under the Natural Gas Act. Federal, state, and local agencies involved in the environmental review process must defer to FERC's approved scope for a NEPA review. FERC must invite and designate the other participating agencies involved in the authorization process, and track and publicly display on its website specific information related to the actions required to complete an authorization. The bill establishes a 90 day deadline to complete an authorization application for other authorizing agencies and requires concurrent reviews when multiple agencies are involved in the authorization process. If a federal or state agency considering an aspect of an application for authorization requires the person applying for such authorization to submit data, the agency must consider any such data gathered by aerial or other remote means that the person submits.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2020
Smarter Purchasing Act This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a study and report on whether it is feasible for agencies to factor in the shadow price of carbon in their internal decision-making processes for procurement, acquisitions, contracting, and other investments. The shadow price of carbon means the hypothetical surcharge to market prices for goods or services that involve significant carbon dioxide emissions in their supply chain. The EPA must make the final report available to the public.
Austria · National Council · 26 June 2020
Bericht des Ausschusses für Land- und Forstwirtschaft über die Regierungsvorlage (238 d.B.): Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Umweltförderungsgesetz (UFG), BGBl. Nr. 185/1993, zuletzt geändert durch das Bundesgesetz BGBl. I Nr. xxx/2020 geändert wird
Austria · National Council · 26 June 2020
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über den Bericht über die Fortschritte, Erkenntnisse und Tätigkeiten des Beratungsgremiums "Human Biomonitoring", vorgelegt von der Bundesministerin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie (III-131 d.B.)
France · Senate · 25 June 2020
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act This bill excludes certain wireless facility modification requests from specified review requirements. Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review any request for modification of an existing wireless tower or base station that involves (1) collocation of new transmission equipment, (2) removal of transmission equipment, or (3) replacement of transmission equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Timely Replacement Under Secure and Trusted for Early and Dependable Broadband Networks Act or the TRUSTED Broadband Networks Act This bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review certain projects to replace communications equipment or services.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Wireless Broadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act This bill excludes certain personal wireless facility projects from specified review requirements. Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review a project subject to the approval of the Federal Communications Commission that involves the placement, modification, or construction of personal wireless facilities (e.g., antennas, apparatuses, and transmitting devices) for the provision of personal wireless service.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Wildfire Wireless Resiliency Act This bill excludes certain communications facility replacement projects from specified review requirements. Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review a project that replaces a communications facility damaged by a major disaster or a wildfire and that could reasonably be considered as necessary (1) for recovery from such disaster or emergency, or (2) to prevent or mitigate future disasters or emergencies.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Coastal Broadband Deployment Act This bill excludes certain communications facility deployment or modification projects from specified review requirements. Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review a project for the deployment or modification of a communications facility that is to be carried out entirely within a floodplain (the lowland and relatively flat areas adjoining inland and coastal waters).
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Brownfields Broadband Deployment Act This bill excludes certain communications facility deployment or modification projects from specified review requirements. Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review a project for the deployment or modification of a communications facility that is to be carried out entirely within a brownfield site (real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant).
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Reducing Antiquated Permitting for Infrastructure Deployment Act or the RAPID Act This bill modifies review requirements for deployment of a small personal wireless service facility and establishes a presumption related to the deployment of wireless facilities on properties owned by an Indian tribe or a Native Hawaiian organization. Specifically, the bill exempts the deployment of a small personal wireless service facility from specified environmental and historic preservation review requirements. The bill also establishes a rebuttable presumption that a wireless provider has completed a request for review if an Indian tribe or a Native Hawaiian organization has received certain completed forms with information reasonably necessary to ascertain whether historic properties of religious and cultural significance may be affected by the deployment of new or collocated wireless facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now Act of 2020 or the GREEN Act of 2020 This bill provides tax incentives for investment in renewable energy resources and energy efficiency programs. Among other provisions, the bill extends for five years the tax credit for production of electricity from certain renewable resources (e.g., wind facilities, biomass, landfill trash facilities), the election to treat certain tangible property as energy property for purposes of the energy tax credit, and certain provisions of the energy tax credit; expands the energy tax credit to include energy storage technology, waste energy recovery property, and qualified biogas property; extends for two years the tax credit for carbon oxide sequestration; allows elective payments in lieu of certain energy-related tax credits; modifies the phaseout provisions of the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel and extends the termination date for such credits; extends for five years and increases the tax credit for nonbusiness energy property and the new energy efficient home tax credit; extends for six years the residential energy efficient property tax credit; extends for five years the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings; modifies the limitations on new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles tax credit and allows a new credit for such vehicles that are previously-owned; allows a new tax credit for zero emission heavy vehicles (vehicles with a gross weight rating of not less than 14,000 pounds and not powered by an internal combustion engine); extends for five years the tax credits for qualified fuel cell motor vehicles and alternative fuel cell refueling property; provides for additional allocations of the advanced energy project tax credit; allows a new tax credit for the labor costs of installing mechanical insulation property; allows a new tax credit to promote environmental justice programs (programs to improve health and economic outcomes of individuals residing in low-income areas or areas populated disproportionately by racial or ethnic minorities); and requires the Department of the Treasury to report on the utility of data from the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program for determining the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by taxpayers for purposes of imposing a fee on them for such emissions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Federal PFAS Research Evaluation Act This bill requires various studies and reports on the exposure, hazards, and management of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS. These substances are man-made and may have adverse human health effects. A variety of products contain the compounds, such as nonstick cookware or weatherproof clothing. Specifically, the bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to conduct a two-phase study and report on the research and development needed to advance human exposure estimation and toxicity hazard estimation of individual or total PFAS. The bill also requires the EPA to jointly enter into an agreement with NASEM to conduct a study and submit a report on the research and development needed to advance the understanding of the extent and implications of environmental contamination by PFAS, how to manage and treat such contamination, and the development of safe alternatives. Finally, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy must submit an implementation plan for federal PFAS research, development, and demonstration activities, taking into account the recommendations of the NASEM reports.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 2020
Neighborhood Homes Investment Act This bill establishes a new business-related tax credit to finance home building and rehabilitation in neighborhoods that meet certain eligibility criteria relating to poverty rates, income, and home values. The credit is limited to 35% of the lesser of the qualified development cost (i.e., the cost of construction, substantial rehabilitation, demolition, and environmental remediation of residential properties) or 80% of the national median sale price for new homes. The credit applies to single family homes containing four or fewer residential units, condominiums, or houses or apartments owned by cooperative housing corporations.
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 25 June 2020
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 25 June 2020
De voortgang van het Kustpact
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 25 June 2020
Inventarisatie belangstelling voor gesprek met EU-commissaris Sinkevicius (Milieu en Oceanen) in de eerste helft van september 2020
Austria · National Council · 24 June 2020
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über den Antrag 688/A(E) der Abgeordneten Julia Elisabeth Herr, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Aufklärung des Störfalls im AKW Temelín und für einen weltweiten Atomausstieg
Austria · National Council · 24 June 2020
Entschließungsantrag des Umweltausschusses betreffend tschechische Atommüll-Endlagerproblematik, Informationen über Ereignisse in Atomkraftwerken sowie europäischer und weltweiter Ausstieg aus Atomkraft
France · Senate · 24 June 2020
Pour une transition numérique écologique
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 June 2020
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report of the all-party group on air pollution entitled, Air Quality Strategy to Reduce Coronavirus Infect
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 2020
Research Investment to Spark the Economy Act or the RISE Act This bill authorizes the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, the Interior, and Health and Human Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation, and Environmental Protection Agency to provide support for research regarding COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) or research disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Support under this bill shall be provided through federal science agencies with at least $50 million in basic and applied research obligations in FY2020. Support may be used to provide supplemental funding to extend the duration of a grant to a research institution or national laboratory that was awarded prior to the enactment of this bill, or to expand the purposes of such a grant as specified; provide supplemental funding through existing competitively awarded cooperative agreements and contracts to cover the increased costs of construction of scientific facilities and equipment that have been delayed because of COVID-19; and award grants and cooperative agreements to institutions of higher education to conduct research on the behavioral, social, or economic effects of COVID-19 and the responses to the disease or on the effectiveness of such responses. Agencies must provide the support as rapidly as possible. Provided funds shall remain available for expenditure for up to two years.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 2020
Open Back Better Act of 2020 This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide grants to federal and state agencies and tribal organizations to implement building projects that increase resiliency, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and grid integration. It also provides grants for projects that may have combined heat and power and energy storage as project components. States must use at least 40% of grant funds to implement projects in environmental justice communities or low-income communities that have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. No funds may be used for a project unless all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in the project are produced in the United States, with specified exceptions. The bill also directs DOE to hire a specified number of employees to carry out the grant program, including at least 300 full-time employees in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 2020
Climate Action Planning for Ports Act of 2020 This bill authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants for developing climate action plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or other air pollutants at ports or port facilities or implementing plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at one or more ports or port facilities. Climate action plans must demonstrate that the measures proposed to be implemented through the grants will do at least two of the following: improve energy efficiency at ports or port facilities, deploy technology or processes that reduce idling of vehicles at ports or port facilities, or reduce the direct emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants with a goal of achieving zero emissions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 2020
Open Back Better Act of 2020 This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide grants to federal and state agencies and tribal organizations to implement building projects that increase resiliency, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and grid integration. It also provides grants for projects that may have combined heat and power and energy storage as project components. States must use at least 40% of grant funds to implement projects in environmental justice communities or low-income communities that have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. No funds may be used for a project unless all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in the project are produced in the United States, with specified exceptions. The bill also directs DOE to hire a specified number of employees to carry out the grant program, including at least 300 full-time employees in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.