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101 records in 2016
Austria · National Council · 15 December 2016
Antrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Christiane Brunner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Daunen von zwangsgestopften oder lebend gerupften Enten und Gänsen <i>(Entwurf eines Gütesiegelgesetzes für den Bereich</i> <i>Tierschutz)</i>
France · Senate · 15 December 2016
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
I will attend the EU Environment Council, which will take place on 19th December in Brussels alongside my Hon Friend the Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry (Nick Hurd MP).Following adoption of the agenda, the list of “A” items will be appro...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
My Hon Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment and Rural Life Opportunities (Thérèse Coffey MP) has today made the following statement.I will attend the EU Environment Council, which will take place on 19th December in Brusse...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has budgeted for historic building grants (HE2) in 2017-18; which buildings have been granted funds under HE2 in the last three years; how much of those funds h
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 15 December 2016
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 15 December 2016
Brief van de minister van Infrastructuur en Milieu over het bericht ‘Extra geld nodig onderhoud dammen en stuwen’ (persbericht Algemene Rekenkamer, 15 december 2016)
European Union · European Commission · 15 December 2016
European Union · European Commission · 15 December 2016
Austria · National Council · 14 December 2016
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ulrike Weigerstorfer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft betreffend Elektromobilität in der Praxis
Austria · National Council · 14 December 2016
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Gerhard Schmid, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Müll aus Italien nach Wien
Austria · National Council · 14 December 2016
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Gerhard Schmid, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Elektromobilität
Austria · National Council · 14 December 2016
Dringliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Leopold Steinbichler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend österreichische Produkte statt umwelt- und gesundheitsschädlichem Palmöl aus dem Regenwald
Austria · National Council · 14 December 2016
Austria · National Council · 14 December 2016
France · Senate · 14 December 2016
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to build climate resilience in Ethiopia.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to build climate resilience in Bangladesh.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to build climate resilience in Kenya.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Treasury Committee on 12 December 2016, in response to Q311, who in her Department is responsible for
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 14 December 2016
Toezeggingen op het gebied van perfluoroctaanzuur (PFOA), GenX en zeer zorgwekkende stoffen
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2016
544. Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39599/16]
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the pay of full-time staff in the highest pay grade in her Department and average full-time pay in that Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the highest-paid and lowest-paid full-time employee in her Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures her Department has in place to support those of its staff who have mental health problems.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the environmental benefits of modernising the UK's airspace.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to include worker representation on its departmental board.
Austria · National Council · 9 December 2016
Bericht des Verkehrsausschusses über den Antrag 1834/A(E) der Abgeordneten Georg Willi, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Kontrolle der Abgasminderungseinrichtungen von Kraftfahrzeugen
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff her Department has recruited in each month of 2016.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff are seconded to her Department from other companies or organisations; and from which organisations and companies they have been seconded.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 2016
Hudson-Mohawk River Basin Act This bill requires the Department of the Interior to establish a nonregulatory Hudson-Mohawk River Basin Restoration Program, under which it shall: draw on management plans for the Hudson-Mohawk River Basin and work with applicable management entities, including the federal government, state and local governments, and regional and nonprofit organizations, to identify, prioritize, and implement water resources activities within the basin; adopt a basin-wide strategy that coordinates activities being undertaken by the basin states (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont), advisory committees, local governments, institutions of higher education, and nongovernmental organizations to address environmental, economic, and cultural issues associated with the management and use of water resources in the basin and that supports implementation of science-based restoration and protection activities; and establish the Hudson-Mohawk River Basin grant program to provide competitive matching grants and technical assistance to state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and other eligible entities to carry out specified restoration and protection activities. Program purposes are listed, including: addressing the management, development, conservation, and use of water resources throughout the basin; coordinating restoration and protection activities; carrying out coordinated restoration and protection activities and providing technical assistance throughout the basin states; maintaining an inventory of historic and cultural resources of the basin and identifying projects to provide for cultural enrichment, preservation of cultural resources, public education about local heritage and historical significance of properties, canals, and historic sites within the basin; and providing a mechanism to promote communication, coordination, and collaborative working relationships among entities working in the basin. Interior shall develop criteria to ensure that activities funded through the grant program accomplish identified purposes and advance the implementation of priority actions or needs identified in the basin-wide strategy.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 2016
Federal Supervisor Training Act of 2016 This bill requires federal agencies to establish supervisor training programs that: (1) require supervisors and management officials to have individual development plans for training on actions, options, and strategies to use for supervisory functions regarding the performance and productivity of agency employees; (2) train supervisors on prohibited personnel practices and employee rights; and (3) provide experienced supervisor mentors to advise new or underperforming supervisors. The bill expands manager training program requirements for employee performance appraisals, mentoring, and management of unacceptable employee performance into mandatory supervisor and manager training programs that also include supervisor training on: fostering equal opportunities and fairness in the workplace; using probationary periods to examine whether employees are performing at an acceptable level to continue their employment; addressing reports of hostile work environment, retaliation, or harassment; meeting supervisor competencies established by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) or the employing agency; and collaborating with human resources to recruit, select, appraise, and reward employees based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. After initial training on each program component, supervisors must complete subsequent training every three years. Agencies must develop a career track for mission critical technical expert employees that affords such employees the opportunity for career advancement without being required to be appointed to a management or supervisory position. The OPM must issue guidance to agencies on competencies supervisors are expected to meet in order to effectively manage the performance of employees. Each agency must assess the performance of supervisors and the overall capacity of its supervisors.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 2016
Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring regulations for state underground injection programs to include provisions designed to prevent the occurrence of seismicity induced by underground injection activities. The bill redefines "underground injection" to include the subsurface emplacement of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations. Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation. The Environmental Protection Agency must review approved state underground injection programs at least once every five years.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 2016
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 · 8 December 2016
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 This bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the Department of Defense; the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); the National Security Agency (NSA); the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; the U.S. Coast Guard; the Departments of State, the Treasury, Energy, and Justice; the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); the Drug Enforcement Administration; the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO); the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for: (1) the Intelligence Community Management Account, and (2) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund. The ODNI must: (1) submit a five-year investment strategy for outreach and recruiting efforts in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) that includes cybersecurity and computer literacy; (2) implement a multisector workforce initiative to enable the intelligence community to build and maintain an appropriate ratio of employees and core contractors; (3) issue guidance regarding the intelligence community's engagements with the entertainment industry; and (4) implement a uniform policy to ensure the independence of inspectors general of the intelligence community, the ODNI, the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, the NGA, and the NRO. For FY2017 and FY2018, personnel of the intelligence community must be managed solely on the basis of: (1) the workload required to carry out intelligence community functions, and (2) the funds made available for each such fiscal year. Management of intelligence personnel during this period shall not be subject to any constraint or limitation in terms of man years, end strength, positions, or maximum number of employees. DHS's national cybersecurity and communications integration center must carry out a program to provide assistance to certain critical infrastructure entities to reduce the risk of regional or national catastrophic harm caused by a cyber attack. The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive is redesignated as the National Counterintelligence and Security Center with a director to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The bill revises or sets forth requirements for: the ODNI to participate in fund-raising events for nonprofit organizations that support intelligence community employees and their families, CIA employee death and retirement benefits, publication of the logos of terrorist organizations, space-based environmental monitoring missions and acquisition programs to meet national security requirements for cloud characterization and theater weather imagery, an evaluation of aerial imagery technologies that can be used to share intelligence with other countries as a replacement for the current regime of observation flights, a declassification review of intelligence reports regarding past terrorist activities of detainees transferred or released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and a concept for a combined interagency space operations center and an updated strategy for national security satellite systems. The bill establishes an executive branch interagency committee to counter active measures by the Russian Federation to exert covert influence over peoples and governments. The State Department must coordinate with the FBI and the ODNI to establish a mandatory advance notification regime governing all travel by accredited diplomatic and consular personnel of the Russian Federation in the United States.
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 8 December 2016
De gevolgen van vislood op mens en milieu
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 8 December 2016
Reactie op amendementen ingediend bij de begroting 2017 van Infrastructuur en Milieu
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 8 December 2016
Voornaamste budgettaire mutaties van het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu (HXII) en het Deltafonds sinds de Tweede suppletoire 2016
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 8 December 2016
Reactie op amendementen begroting 2017 Infrastructuur en Milieu
Austria · National Council · 7 December 2016
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (1361 d.B.): Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Umweltförderungsgesetz geändert und das Bundesgesetz, mit dem zusätzliche Mittel für Energieeffizienz bereitgestellt werden, aufgehoben wird
Austria · National Council · 7 December 2016
Bericht des Umweltausschusses betreffend Elfter Umweltkontrollbericht des Bundesministers für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (III-316 und Zu III-316 d.B.)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to publish information on the gender pay gap among its employees.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2016
Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2016 This bill establishes a National Wildlife Corridors System for: conserving and restoring habitats that support native fish, wildlife, and plant species that have experienced or may experience habitat loss, degradation, fragmentation, or obstructions of connectivity; providing long-term habitat connectivity for the native species for migration, dispersal, adaptation to environmental change, and genetic exchange; and facilitating coordinated landscape- and seascape-scale connectivity planning and management across departmental jurisdictions. The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, the Interior, and Transportation must: (1) each create a process for designating lands and waters under their respective administration and control as national wildlife corridors; and (2) manage corridors in a manner that contributes to the long-term connectivity, persistence, resilience, and adaptability of native species. The bill establishes safety and mitigation requirements for corridors that intersect, adjoin, or cross local, state, or federal roads or highways. The departments may acquire land to establish and enhance corridors and the land may be purchased with amounts from the Land and Water Conservation Fund or the Wildlife Corridors Stewardship and Protection Fund. The U.S. Geological Survey must establish and make available to the public a comprehensive National Native Species Habitats and Corridors Geographic Information System Database. The bill establishes a Wildlife Corridors Stewardship and Protection Fund, which may be used by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for enhancing the management and the protection of corridors and other lands and waters identified as important to further the purposes of the corridor.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2016
Yurok Lands Act This bill gives the Yurok Tribe the option to expand its role in the environmental review process under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) with respect to major federal actions within: (1) the Revised Yurok Reservation, and (2) specified areas within the Klamath and Redwood Creek Watersheds. The Department of the Interior must enter into a cooperative agreement with the tribe for protecting the natural resources of Redwood National Park. The bill confirms the 2006 "Cooperative Agreement between the Department of the Interior and the Yurok Tribe for the Cooperative Management of Tribal and Federal Lands and Resources in the Klamath River Basin of California." Interior may take actions to effectuate the agreement. The Forest Service must transfer approximately 1,229 acres in the Yurok Experimental Forest to Interior. That land must be held in trust for the benefit of the tribe and be managed by the tribe for conservation and research purposes. The trust land may not be: (1) used for gaming activity, and (2) subject to old growth logging. Interior must revise the boundary of the reservation as depicted on the map entitled, "Revised Yurok Reservation Boundary" and dated December 7, 2016. National Forest System land and National Park System land within the revised reservation must be administered by the Forest Service and the National Park Service, respectively. The bill designates the Bald Hills Road, which runs from U.S. Highway 101 to the Klamath River, as the "Yurok Scenic Byway." The bill ratifies and confirms the tribe's governing documents.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2016
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) by allowing a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program to incorporate a water quality improvement partnership program that encourages investment by publicly owned treatment works and municipal separate storm sewer systems in watershed-based projects for improving water quality. Those partnerships may be used by publicly owned treatment works and municipal separate storm sewer systems to attain and maintain water quality standards.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2016
Buy America for Drinking Water Extension Act of 2016 This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring projects funded by the drinking water state revolving fund to only use iron and steel produced in the United States, unless: (1) it would be inconsistent with the public interest, (2) iron and steel products are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality, or (3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced in the United States will increase the cost of the overall project by more than 25%. The requirement does not apply with respect to a project if a state approves the plans and specifications for the project prior to October 1, 2018.
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 7 December 2016
Austria · National Council · 6 December 2016
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Wolfgang Katzian, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft betreffend "Regional Operational Center" <i>(Bündelung von Übertragungsnetzbetreibern)</i>
France · National Assembly · 6 December 2016
M. Pascal Popelin interroge Mme la ministre de l'environnement, de l'énergie et de la mer, chargée des relations internationales sur le climat, sur l'avenir du parc de la Poudrerie, espace naturel boisé de 120 hectares, situé en Seine-Saint-Denis, édifié sur l'emprise d'une ancienne poudrerie nationale et ouvert au public depuis les années 1970. En 1996, l'État, propriétaire, décida de ne plus payer son entretien, choix qui faillit provoquer sa fermeture, jusqu'à ce que la région Île-de-France décide en 1998 de s'y substituer avec le soutien financier du département de la Seine-Saint-Denis et des communes concernées. Plusieurs conventions de gestion provisoires ont été ensuite conclues, l'actuelle, qui prévoit un financement de l'entretien du parc à hauteur d'environ 900 000 €, pris en charge à parts égales par la région et le département, vient à échéance à la fin de l'année 2016. Le président du conseil départemental a clairement annoncé son intention de poursuivre l'engagement financier de sa collectivité, suivi par la présidente du conseil régional, après quelques tergiversations. Cette évolution positive ne dispense toutefois pas l'État de ses obligations de propriétaire, qui n'ont pas été assumées depuis plusieurs décennies. Se posent ainsi la question d'un dispositif de gestion pérenne du parc de la Poudrerie, le problème de certaines pollutions héritées de son passé militaire, ainsi que de l'état du patrimoine bâti, propriété de l'État, qui n'a fait l'objet d'aucun entretien depuis bien trop longtemps. Les récentes réunions qui se sont tenues avec toutes les parties prenantes ont laissé entrevoir des propositions encourageantes. Il lui demande donc de préciser les intentions et les engagements de l'État, s'agissant de l'avenir du parc de la Poudrerie.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2016
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many unpaid internships there are in her Department.