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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 June 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of Schedule 6: Resource efficiency information of the Environment Bill on the (a) environmental impact of single-use nappies and (b)
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2021
651. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farmers without Natura lands might be able to join the results based environment agri pilot scheme; if persons (details supplied) will be able to join; if it is planned to increase numbers admitted to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33497/21]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2021
626. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the serious decline in the number of farmers that afforested a part of their farm during the duration of GLAS has been included in any SWOT analysis and needs assessment completed by his Department as part of the CAP Strategic Plan in particular the eco-scheme and agri-environment measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33000/21]
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
This resolution sets forth rules for the consideration of H.R. 2062 to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and other laws to clarify appropriate standards for employment discrimination and retaliation claims; H.R. 239 to provide for limitations on copayments for contraception furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs; H.R. 1443 to amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to require the collection of small business loan data related to LGBTQ-owned business; S.J. Res 14 providing for congressional disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency Rule relating to Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review ; and S.J. Res 15 providing for congressional disapproval of the Office of Comptroller of Currency rule relating to National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders . The resolution also adopts H.E. Res 485 that provides amounts for the expenses of the Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth for the 117th Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
Protecting Airport Communities from Particle Emissions Act This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to jointly contract with an institution of higher education to study the characteristics, distributions, sources, and potential human health effects of airborne ultrafine particles.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
Septic Upgrade Grant Act This bill expands the clean water state revolving fund program to include additional subsidization for on-site wastewater treatment system projects, such as projects that replace septic systems with wastewater treatment systems that reduce nitrogen pollution as specified under the bill.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
Efficient Grid Interconnection Act of 2021 This bill establishes requirements concerning (1) the equitable allocation of costs for electric grid upgrades; and (2) the deployment of grid enhancing technology or equipment that increases the capacity, efficiency, or reliability of a transmission facility or transmission system. Specifically, it directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue regulations that require public electric utilities to allocate the cost of upgrades to the electric grid, such as upgrades to interconnect renewable generation projects, among all customers that benefit from the upgrades. In determining which parties benefit, FERC must consider all material benefits of the network upgrade, including environmental benefits and those that cannot be directly quantified. In addition, FERC must issue regulations that apply to regional transmission organizations, independent system operators, or transmission planning coordinators when they are processing requests to interconnect generation projects or energy storage projects to the electric grid. The regulations must require such organizations, operators, and coordinators to study deploying technology or equipment that increases the capacity, efficiency, or reliability of a transmission facility or transmission system.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2021 This bill reauthorizes and revises specified U.S. trade programs and provisions. Specifically, the bill extends through January 1, 2027, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which provides duty-free treatment to products imported from designated beneficiary countries. The bill makes various changes to the GSP, including by (1) adding human rights, environmental, and other criteria for designation as a beneficiary developing country; (2) requiring an assessment of how the GSP supports worker and gender rights; and (3) requiring a study on rules of origin and GSP utilization rates. Additionally, the bill provides through December 31, 2023, and retroactively applies to 120 days before this bill's enactment, temporary duty suspensions or reductions to eligible imported products. This authorization is commonly known as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB). The last version of the MTB was enacted in September 2018 and the temporary treatment for those products listed in the MTB expired on December 31, 2020. The bill also extends the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 for two future MTB cycles (one in 2022 and one in 2025). This extension allows the U.S. International Trade Commission to conduct the MTB petition, review, and recommendation process for those additional cycles. The bill extends customs user fees through June 21, 2031.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
Oil and Gas Bonding Reform and Orphaned Well Remediation Act This bill establishes incentives and requirements to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells, including by (1) establishing a program to remediate, reclaim, and permanently plug such wells located on federal land, state land, or land under the jurisdiction of Indian tribes; and (2) revising bonding requirements for oil and gas development on public land leased from the federal government. Such bonds are required to ensure developers have adequate financial resources to remediate and reclaim public land, water, or other resources after wells are abandoned or oil and gas development ceases.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
Public Engagement Opportunity on Public Land Exploration Act of 2021 or the PEOPLE Act of 2021 This bill expands requirements related to issuing oil and gas leases on federal land. Specifically, the bill expands requirements related to public notice and comment periods with respect to oil and gas lease sales, including by requiring information about the person or entities submitting bids for leases. The bill also requires the lease sales to be reviewed under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. In addition, the Department of the Interior may only issue such leases to exploration and drilling operators if the operators sign post-lease surface use agreements with the surface estate owners. Under the agreements, operators must agree to reclaim the land and provide compensation for any damages resulting from the exploration and drilling operations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
Superfund Polluter Pays Restoration Act of 2021 This bill (1) reinstates the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate beginning 60 days after enactment of this bill; (2) increases such rate from 9.7 cents to 17.2 cents per barrel of crude oil (adjusted for inflation after 2021); (3) reinstates and increases the rates of tax on taxable chemicals (adjusted for inflation after 2021); and (4) modifies the definition of crude oil to include any bitumen or bituminous mixture, any oil derived from such mixture (including oil derived from tar sands), and any oil derived form kerogen-bearing sources (including oil derived from oil shale). The bill amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to allow the use of the Superfund for environmental remediation without further appropriation.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2021
Define WOTUS Act of 2021 This bill describes which bodies of water fall under federal jurisdiction for purposes of the Clean Water Act. Specifically, the bill redefines navigable waters and establishes a process for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to determine, upon request, whether certain waters are navigable waters.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 June 2021
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the timetable is for the proposed green savings bond announced in the Budget of 3 March 2021 to be released for sale to the public.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 June 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which product categories under the UK Global Tariff, presented with their commodity codes, are classed as environmental goods.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 June 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which product categories subject to a third-country duty under the UK Global Tariff, presented with their commodity codes, are classed as environmental goods.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 June 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Written Statement of 15 December 2020, HCWS652, on Unconscious bias training, what steps he has taken to phase out unconscious bias training in his Department.
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 21 June 2021
De schade aan mens en milieu door de winning van mangaan in Zuid-Afrika
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 June 2021
A Bill to make provision for a public consultation to inform a set of national wellbeing goals; to require public bodies to act in pursuit of the United Kingdom’s environmental, social, economic and cultural wellbeing by meeting wellbeing objectives, publishing future generations impact assessments and accounting for preventative spending; to establish a futures and forecasting report; to establish a Commission for Future Generations for the United Kingdom; to extend the duty of the Office of Budget Responsibility to consider wellbeing and the future generations principle in their work; to add onto a Minister in each government department's portfolio a duty to promote the future generations principle across government policy; to establish a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Future Generations; and for connected purposes.
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie betreffend §69 (7C) im AWG-Novelle Kreislaufwirtschaftspaket
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Walter Rauch, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Bund beteiligt sich bei grenzüberschreitenden UVP-Verfahren zu AKW Krsko
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Walter Rauch, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Verkehrsministerin bekräftigt Verkaufsverbot für Verbrenner
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Erwin Angerer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Brandgefahr von E-Bussen
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Dietmar Keck, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Ende der dauernden Anbindehaltung bei Rindern
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Christian Hafenecker, MA, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Zulassung von E10-Treibstoff
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Walter Rauch, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Schaffung von Blühstreifen
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Peter Schmiedlechner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Schaffung von Blühstreifen
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Cornelia Ecker, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Agrarfördermitteleinsatz zur Erreichung des Endes der Vollspaltenböden-Haltung von Schweinen in Österreich
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Herbert Kickl, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Klimaschutz ohne Bevormundung
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Erwin Angerer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Bevölkerungsschutz in wolfsnahen Siedlungsgebieten durch Anpassung der FFH-Richtlinie
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Herbert Kickl, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Vetovolksabstimmung gegen Klima-Bevormundung
Austria · National Council · 17 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Alois Stöger, diplômé, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend qualitativer Lärmschutz im Bereich des ÖBB-Netzes für die Landeshauptstadt St. Pölten
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 June 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the proportion of (a) UK and (b) global waters which have been damaged by bottom trawling and supertrawlers.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 June 2021
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Committee on Climate Change's report entitled The Sixth Carbon Budget: The UK’s path to Net Zero, published in December 2020, whether he has plans to publish a roadmap for increasing low-carbon
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 June 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the use of bottom trawling and supertrawlers by the fishing industry.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 2021
Otto Warmbier Countering North Korean Censorship and Surveillance Act of 2021 This bill authorizes sanctions related to censorship in North Korea and addresses related issues. The President may impose property-blocking sanctions on foreign government entities, key government officials, and security forces responsible for implementing or facilitating North Korea's censorship laws and surveillance. For the individuals that meet such criteria, the President may also impose visa-blocking sanctions. The bill also authorizes the U.S. Agency for Global Media to provide increased broadcasting and grants for various purposes, including the development of internet freedom tools to facilitate information sharing related to North Korea and the restoration of the agency's broadcasting capacity to North Korea. The President must submit to Congress a strategy to combat North Korea's information environment.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 2021
Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021 or the Honoring our PACT Act of 2021 This bill addresses health care, presumption of service-connection, research, resources, and other matters related to veterans who were exposed to toxic substances during military service. The bill provides eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical care to veterans who (1) participated in a toxic exposure risk activity (a qualifying activity that requires a corresponding entry in the Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record), or (2) served in specified locations on specified dates. The bill establishes within the VA the Formal Advisory Committee on Toxic Exposure, the Science Review Board, and the Working Group to assist with the various procedures in establishing or removing presumptions of service-connection. The bill modifies or establishes the presumption of service-connection for certain conditions or purposes for various groups of veterans. Among other requirements, the VA must provide a veteran with a medical examination regarding the nexus between a disability and toxic exposure risk activity if a veteran submits a disability compensation claim for a service-connected disability with insufficient evidence, incorporate a clinical questionnaire to help determine potential toxic exposures as part of the initial screening conducted for veterans with a VA primary care provider, establish a registry for current or past members of the Armed Forces who may have been exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances due to the environmental release of aqueous film-forming foam at a Department of Defense location, and establish and maintain the Fort McClellan Health Registry.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 2021
Less Imprecision in Species Treatment Act of 2021 or the LIST Act of 2021 This bill revises the process for removing a species from the endangered or threatened species lists. A species must be removed from the endangered or threatened species lists if the Department of the Interior produces or receives substantial scientific or commercial information demonstrating that the species is recovered or that recovery goals set for the species have been met. The publication and notice of a proposed regulation to remove a species from the lists must consist solely of a notice of the removal. The bill establishes a process for removing species from the lists if they were erroneously or wrongfully listed. The bill prohibits a person from submitting a petition to list a species as a threatened or endangered species for 10 years if the person knowingly submitted a petition with information that was inaccurate beyond scientifically reasonable margins of error, fraudulent, or misrepresentative.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 2021
Generalized System of Preferences and Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Modernization Act of 2021 This bill reauthorizes and revises specified U.S. trade programs and provisions. Specifically, the bill extends through December 31, 2024, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which provides duty-free treatment to products imported from designated beneficiary countries. The bill makes various changes to the GSP, including by (1) adding human rights, environmental, and other criteria for designation as a beneficiary developing country; (2) requiring a review of laws relating to worker and gender rights; and (3) requiring a study on rules of origin and GSP utilization rates. Additionally, the bill provides through December 31, 2023, and retroactively applies to 120 days before this bill's enactment, temporary duty suspensions or reductions to eligible imported products. This authorization is commonly known as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB). The last version of the MTB was enacted in September 2018 and the temporary treatment for those products listed in the MTB expired on December 31, 2020. The bill also extends the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 for two future MTB cycles (one in 2022 and one in 2025). This extension allows the U.S. International Trade Commission to conduct the MTB petition, review, and recommendation process for those additional cycles.
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 17 June 2021
Austria · National Council · 16 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Peter Wurm, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Verringerung der Lebensmittelverschwendung – Umsetzung des Unterziels 12.3 der Agenda 2030 Bericht des Rechnungshofes Reihe BUND 2021/19
Austria · National Council · 16 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Dietmar Keck, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Bundesgesetz über den Schutz der Tiere (Tierschutzgesetz – TSchG) geändert wird
Austria · National Council · 16 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Dipl.-Ing. Karin Doppelbauer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Bundesgesetz vom 6. Feber 1968 über elektrische Leitungsanlagen, die sich nicht auf zwei oder mehrere Bundesländer erstrecken, geändert wird
Austria · National Council · 16 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Anpassung der Schwellenwerte in der Bundes-Umgebungslärmschutzverordnung an die Empfehlungen der WHO
Austria · National Council · 16 June 2021
Antrag der Abgeordneten Erwin Angerer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Fristverlängerung für die Beantragung der Mittel aus dem Kommunalen Investitionsprogramm
Austria · National Council · 16 June 2021
Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Flughafenentgeltegesetz geändert wird
United States · United States Senate · 16 June 2021
United States · United States Senate · 16 June 2021
France · Senate · 16 June 2021
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 June 2021
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government plans to take to promote the climate advantages of public transport during COP26.
France · National Assembly · 16 June 2021