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Question· writtenPQ 419asked

419. Deputy James Bannon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive outstanding agricultural payments for 2014 and 2015, given that this delay is causing serious financial hardship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37549/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 November 2015

419. Deputy James Bannon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive outstanding agricultural payments for 2014 and 2015, given that this delay is causing serious financial hardship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37549/15]

Question· writtenPQ 397asked

397. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the agri-environment option scheme 2015 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37308/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 November 2015

397. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the agri-environment option scheme 2015 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37308/15]

Question· writtenPQ 386asked

386. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payments under the agri-environment options scheme for 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37187/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 November 2015

386. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payments under the agri-environment options scheme for 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37187/15]

Bill· HRH.R. 3893 (114th)referred

AIPM Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 3 November 2015

Areawide Integrated Pest Management Act of 2015 or the AIPM Act of 2015 This bill amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to expand the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program to include grants to colleges, universities, and other entities for qualified areawide integrated pest management projects to prevent the spread of pests and invasive species. The bill establishes an areawide integrated pest management committee to consider stakeholder feedback and determine priorities for the projects. The projects must be implemented on a landscape scale or larger and include collaboration with specified federal, regional, state, and nongovernmental entities. The projects may prevent the spread of pests and invasive species through: prevention, avoidance, monitoring, and suppression; educational programs; and physical, mechanical, cultural biologically-based, or chemical controls. A qualified project must: provide for significant benefits for the prevention, eradication, or management of pests and invasive species; provide for economic and environmental benefits to agriculture, individuals, wildlife, and the environment; address the annual priorities established by the integrated pest management committee; last no more than five years; establish a regional advisory committee to oversee the project; and involve the cooperative extension services in translating the results of research into practical information and tools to be shared. USDA must transfer to the National Institute of Food and Agriculture the authority for the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program.

Bill· HRH.R. 3880 (114th)referred

Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 3 November 2015

Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2015 This bill amends the Clean Air Act to exclude carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride pollution from the scope of that Act. The bill declares that current law does not authorize or require the regulation of climate change or global warming and nullifies certain proposed rules relating to greenhouse gas and carbon pollution emissions. Before proposing or finalizing regulations or policies, the Environmental Protection Agency must analyze the net and gross impact of those regulations and policies on employment. Regulations and policies may not take effect if they have a negative impact on employment, unless they are approved by Congress and signed by the President.

Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 1710open

Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (Amendment) Bill

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 November 2015

A Bill to amend the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (the "1990 Act") to establish additional factors, including environmental performance, health and safety and maintenance costs, as matters to be taken into account by the Secretary of State in considering whether to include, retain or release a building, or part thereof, in or from a list compiled or approved under the 1990 Act due to its architectural or historic interest; to make provision about excluding parts of buildings and structures within their curtilage from such lists; and for connected purposes.

Report· Ausschussbericht874 d.B.ausschussbericht

Abgasskandal: Zum Schutz der VerbraucherInnen, der Gesundheit und der Umwelt den Betrug beim Schadstoffausstoß von Kfz wirksam beenden und bestrafen!

Austria · National Council · 2 November 2015

Bericht des Verkehrsausschusses über den Antrag 1389/A(E) der Abgeordneten Georg Willi, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Abgasskandal: Zum Schutz der VerbraucherInnen, der Gesundheit und der Umwelt den Betrug beim Schadstoffausstoß von Kfz wirksam beenden und bestrafen!

Question· Written questionUIN 14368answered

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Stationery

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 November 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the value of stationery that has been (a) lost and (b) stolen from her Department in each of the last five fiscal years; and what the cost was of replacin

Question· Written questionUIN 14291answered

Environment Protection: Taxation

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 November 2015

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the change in projected Government expenditure for 2020 under the Levy Control Framework resulting from the decision to freeze the level of the carbon price floor in the 2014 Budget.

Question· Written questionHL HL3214answered

Toxicity of Chemicals in Food Consumer Products and the Environment Committee

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 November 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 16 September (HL2047) regarding the Committee on Toxicology's advice about toxic chemicals in food and the environment, when they intend to write to the members o

Record· Schriftliche Anfrage - BR3095/J-BR/2015schriftliche anfrage - br

Lärmschutzmaßnahmen entlang der Südbahnstrecke

Austria · Federal Council · 30 October 2015

Anfrage der Bundesräte Arnd Meißl, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Lärmschutzmaßnahmen entlang der Südbahnstrecke im Siedlungsbereich des Ortsteiles Hönigsberg der Gemeinde Mürzzuschlag

Question· Schriftliche Frage18/6521open

Ausnahmen der Umweltschutz- und Energiebeihilfeleitlinien bei der Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung zur Vermeidung der Ausschreibung zusätzlicher bzw. neuer Kraftwerkskapazitäten

Germany · German Bundestag · 30 October 2015

Originaltext der Frage(n):<br /> <br /> Welche Ausnahmen der UEBLL will die Bundesregierung bei der KWK nutzen, um zusätzliche bzw. neue Kraftwerkskapazitäten nicht ausschreiben zu müssen, und wie lautet die Begründung der Bundesregierung (mit der Bitte um Vorlage von Stellungnahmen und Schreiben der Bundesregierung an die EU-Kommission, die ihre diesbezügliche Position begründen)?

Report· Ausschussbericht854 d.B.ausschussbericht

Strahlenschutzgesetz

Austria · National Council · 28 October 2015

Bericht des Umweltausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (823 d.B.): Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Strahlenschutzgesetz geändert wird

Report· Ausschussbericht853 d.B.ausschussbericht

Fortschrittsbericht 2015 nach § 6 Klimaschutzgesetz

Austria · National Council · 28 October 2015

Bericht des Umweltausschusses über den Fortschrittsbericht 2015 nach § 6 Klimaschutzgesetz, vorgelegt vom Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (III-215 d.B.)

Question· Written questionUIN 13901answered

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Trade Unions

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 October 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants in her Department are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility t

Bill· HRH.R. 3843 (114th)open

Locatable Minerals Claim Location and Maintenance Fees Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 28 October 2015

Locatable Minerals Claim Location and Maintenance Fees Act of 2015 This bill requires the owner or holder of a claim (claimant), for each unpatented lode mining claim, placer claim, mill site, or tunnel site located under the general mining laws (claim), to pay the Department of the Interior a location fee of $37 at the time the claim location notice is recorded with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). A claimant shall also pay Interior a claim maintenance fee of $155 per 20.66-acre claim or fraction thereof to maintain such claim for the following assessment year. Failure to pay either a claim maintenance fee or a location fee for an unpatented mining claim shall subject the claim to forfeiture. All mining claim validity exams shall be completed by Certified Mineral Examiners and reviewed by Certified Review Mineral Examiners. Mineral potential reports for areas withdrawn from mineral entry, and any mining claim validity exams on claims located within those areas, must be completed or prepared by a Certified Mineral Examiner and reviewed by a Certified Review Mineral Examiner. The U.S. Geological Survey shall enter into separate memorandum of understanding to share data to expand the U.S. Mineral Deposit Database with the BLM, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, and the Forest Service. There is established in Interior an Abandoned Noncoal Mine Lands Program to: identify, secure, and remediate physical safety hazards and environmental hazards associated with inactive and abandoned noncoal mine lands that are on or affecting federal public lands or adjacent lands; maintain an inventory of the sites of such mines, affected federal public lands, and adjacent lands; and identify the persons responsible for paying the costs to remediate such hazards. Interior, through the BLM, and the Department of Agriculture, through the Forest Service, shall identify 20 priority sites on federal land containing inactive or abandoned mine sites suitable for Good Samaritan projects. Good Samaritan Cleanup of Abandoned Mine Lands Act Under the Good Samaritan program a permitting authority (the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] or, in the case of a state or tribal program, the lead agency) may issue a permit to a Good Samaritan to carry out remediation at or related to an inactive or abandoned mine site. A Good Samaritan is a person with an ownership interest in the inactive or abandoned mine site but who did not participate in, nor has any liability for remediation costs relating to, activities that caused any historic mine residue at the site. Projects authorized under the Good Samaritan permit program shall be eligible for nonpoint source management program grants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act).

Record· Rondvraagpunt procedurevergadering2015Z19998concluded

Planning AO Duurzaamheid en milieu

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 28 October 2015

Planning AO Duurzaamheid en milieu

Report· Written statementUIN HCWS270published

AGENDA FOR OCTOBER EU ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 October 2015

I will attend the EU Environment Council in Luxembourg on 26 October. Following the adoption of the agenda the list of “A” items will be approved. During the legislative deliberations, there will be a policy debate on the proposal for a Directive reformin...

Report· Written statementUIN HLWS263published

Agenda for October EU Environment Council

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 October 2015

My Hon Friend the Parliamentary under Secretary of State (Rory Stewart) has today made the following statement.I will attend the EU Environment Council in Luxembourg on 26 October. Following the adoption of the agenda the list of “A” items will be approve...

Question· Written questionUIN 13511answered

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Credit Unions

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 October 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to promote the use of credit unions in the work of her Department; and if she will make a statement.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 24 (114th)open

A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units".

United States · United States Congress · 26 October 2015

Nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency's rule published on October 23, 2015, that requires states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units (EGUs). (Those EGUs convert fossil fuel energy to electric energy.)

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 23 (114th)open

A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units".

United States · United States Congress · 26 October 2015

Nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency's rule published on October 23, 2015, that establishes new source performance standards under the Clean Air Act for emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units (EGUs) if the EGUs are newly constructed, modified, or reconstructed. (Those EGUs convert fossil fuel energy to electric energy.)

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 72 (114th)open

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units".

United States · United States Congress · 26 October 2015

Nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency's rule published on October 23, 2015, that requires states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units (EGUs). (Those EGUs convert fossil fuel energy to electric energy.)

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 71 (114th)open

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units".

United States · United States Congress · 26 October 2015

Nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency's rule published on October 23, 2015, that establishes new source performance standards under the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units (EGUs) if the EGUs are newly constructed, modified, or reconstructed. (Those EGUs convert fossil fuel energy to electric energy.)

Question· Written questionUIN 13165answered

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pay

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials of her Department in each of the last three years.

Bill· HRH.R. 3825 (114th)referred

Intelligent Technologies Initiative Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 23 October 2015

Intelligent Technologies Initiative Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish an Intelligent Technology Initiative to provide grants to up to six state and local governments to establish deployment sites for large scale installation and operation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, and return on investment. DOT shall develop criteria for selecting grant recipients, including how the deployment of technology will enable the recipient to: reduce costs and improve return on investments; deliver environmental benefits and reduce energy consumption by alleviating congestion and streamlining traffic flow; measure and improve the operational performance of its transportation network; reduce the number and severity of traffic collisions and increase driver, passenger, and pedestrian safety; collect, disseminate, and utilize real-time traffic, transit, parking, and other transportation-related information to improve mobility, reduce congestion, and provide for more efficient and accessible transportation alternatives; monitor transportation assets to improve infrastructure management, reduce maintenance costs, prioritize investment decisions, and ensure a state of good repair; and deliver economic benefits by reducing delays, improving system performance, and providing for the efficient and reliable movement of goods and services. A grant application must include: a plan to deploy and provide for the long-term operation and maintenance of ITS to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, and return on investment; quantifiable system performance improvements; quantifiable safety, mobility, and environmental benefit projections; a plan for partnering with the private sector, public agencies, research institutions, organizations representing transportation and technology leaders, and other transportation stakeholders; a plan to leverage and optimize existing local and regional ITS investments; and a plan to ensure interoperability of deployed technologies with other tolling, traffic management, and ITS. Recipient may use grant funds to deploy, operate, and maintain specified ITS and ITS-enabled operational strategies. The bill requires DOT to report on the effectiveness of grant recipients in meeting their projected deployment plans.

Question· Schriftliche Anfrage6840/Jschriftliche anfrage

Putenhaltung

Austria · National Council · 22 October 2015

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Christiane Brunner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit betreffend Putenhaltung

Question· Schriftliche Anfrage6841/Jschriftliche anfrage

Haltung von Tieren zum Zwecke der Jagd

Austria · National Council · 22 October 2015

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Christiane Brunner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit betreffend Haltung von Tieren zum Zwecke der Jagd

Question· writtenPQ 350asked

350. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the protections tenants will have in the face of ever-increasing private rents that are now on par with the high rents charged in 2007; the impact this has on jobs; his plans to introduce intermediate control measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37136/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2015

350. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the protections tenants will have in the face of ever-increasing private rents that are now on par with the high rents charged in 2007; the impact this has on jobs; his plans to introduce intermediate control measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37136/15]

Question· writtenPQ 349asked

349. Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding procedures involving electoral registers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37053/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2015

349. Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding procedures involving electoral registers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37053/15]

Question· writtenPQ 348asked

348. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the proposals for the refurbishment of housing units at Jamestown Court in Inchicore in Dublin 8, for which planning permission was granted by Dublin City Council in June 2015; if the proposals are acceptable; and when the necessary sanction will be given to enable the refurbishment work to proceed. [36999/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2015

348. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the proposals for the refurbishment of housing units at Jamestown Court in Inchicore in Dublin 8, for which planning permission was granted by Dublin City Council in June 2015; if the proposals are acceptable; and when the necessary sanction will be given to enable the refurbishment work to proceed. [36999/15]

Question· writtenPQ 347asked

347. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure lighting is restored to an estate (details supplied) in County Longford without further delay. [36869/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2015

347. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure lighting is restored to an estate (details supplied) in County Longford without further delay. [36869/15]

Question· writtenPQ 346asked

346. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why the number of homeless children in Dublin has doubled in the past year; why he and his Government did not give this primary consideration in the recent budget by providing an immediate solution to the housing crisis that is affecting more than 1,000 children in Dublin, considering that Ireland signed up to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992, an article of which states that it is the responsibility of the State to meet the basic needs of a child, including providing adequate shelter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37088/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2015

346. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why the number of homeless children in Dublin has doubled in the past year; why he and his Government did not give this primary consideration in the recent budget by providing an immediate solution to the housing crisis that is affecting more than 1,000 children in Dublin, considering that Ireland signed up to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992, an article of which states that it is the responsibility of the State to meet the basic needs of a child, including providing adequate shelter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37088/15]

Question· writtenPQ 169asked

169. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive payment under the agri-environment options scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36913/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2015

169. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive payment under the agri-environment options scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36913/15]

Bill· HRH.R. 3797 (114th)referred

SENSE Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 October 2015

Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment Act or the SENSE Act This bill modifies the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule as it applies to certain electric utility steam generating units (electric power plants) that convert coal refuse into energy. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must maintain the existing limits for sulfur dioxide emissions from coal refuse utilities under the cap-and-trade system, instead of applying the more restrictive limits that are scheduled to go into effect in 2017. (Under the current system, a cap sets a limit on emissions. The cap is lowered over time to reduce the amount of pollutants released. Utilities may only emit as much carbon as permitted under their allowances, which may be traded with others.) Thus, the EPA must allocate to coal refuse utilities in 2017 and subsequent years the same number of emissions allowances for sulfur dioxide that have been previously allocated to coal refuse utilities, instead of reducing allowances. After January 1, 2017, a coal refuse utility may not trade any unused sulfur dioxide allowances. Those allowances may be saved by the coal refuse utilities for use in future compliance periods. The EPA may not increase the total number of allowances for sulfur dioxide emissions from all sources that are allocated to each state. The bill eases emission limits for hazardous air pollutants from coal refuse utilities. The EPA must allow the utilities to meet compliance requirements by meeting the maximum achievable control technology standards for either hydrogen chloride or sulfur dioxide.

Bill· SS. 2194 (114th)referred

Clean Cookstoves and Fuels Support Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 October 2015

Clean Cookstoves and Fuels Support Act This bill directs the Department of State to work to advance the goals of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. For working with the Alliance appropriations are authorized for the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Peace Corps.

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