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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2017
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 4.51 of the Red Book, what his Department’s definition is for new low-carbon electricity levies.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the additional funding required by his Department over the next two years to prepare effectively for the UK leaving the EU.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 2017
Clean Air Contingency Measures Act of 2017 This bill amends the Clean Air Act to specify that an area nonattainment plan may contain contingency measures, which are measures undertaken if an area fails to make reasonable progress towards or to attain a national primary ambient air quality standard, that may be implemented prior to the area failing.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 2017
Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2017 This bill amends the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to: (1) exclude the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from specified activities that it currently carries out in conjunction with the the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and (2) increase and extend funding through FY2024. The Corps shall approve specified water infrastructure projects and issue guidance on information required to be included in applications for projects requiring its approval. The EPA (currently, the Corps and the EPA): may enter into agreements to make secured loans, and shall establish a uniform system to service the federal credit instruments made available; may collect and spend fees, subject to specified limitations, and may appoint a financial entity to assist in servicing the federal credit instruments; shall set aside for each fiscal year at least 15% of the amounts made available for that fiscal year for small community water infrastructure projects; and shall publish pilot program implementation reports on a public Internet site. The bill modifies the date of the Government Accountability Office report to Congress on projects receiving assistance under the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 2017
Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act or the SAFE Act This bill requires the President to establish a National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy Joint Implementation Working Group to address the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants, including by adopting a national strategy and completing strategy implementation plans. Federal agencies must integrate the elements of the national strategy that relate to conservation, management, and protection of fish, wildlife, and plants into their plans, environmental reviews, and programs. The Department of the Interior must establish: (1) a National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center to assess and develop scientific information, tools, strategies, and techniques to support interested parties in addressing the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants; and (2) an Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Sciences to advise the working group. In order to be eligible to receive funds under this bill, a state must submit to Interior and the Department of Commerce a fish, wildlife, and plant adaptation plan detailing efforts to address the effects of climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants and coastal areas within the state's jurisdiction.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 2017
Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act or the SAFE Act This bill requires the President to establish a National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy Joint Implementation Working Group to address the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants, including by adopting a national strategy and completing strategy implementation plans. Federal agencies must integrate the elements of the national strategy that relate to conservation, management, and protection of fish, wildlife, and plants into their plans, environmental reviews, and programs. The Department of the Interior must establish: (1) a National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center to assess and develop scientific information, tools, strategies, and techniques to support interested parties in addressing the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants; and (2) an Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Sciences to advise the working group. In order to be eligible to receive funds under this bill, a state must submit to Interior and the Department of Commerce a fish, wildlife, and plant adaptation plan detailing efforts to address the effects of climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants and coastal areas within the state's jurisdiction.
United States · United States House of Representatives · 29 November 2017
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with (a) Ministers and (b) officials of the Department for International Trade on the potential effect of future trade deals on (i) food,
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee on 31 October, how many civil servants h
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of officials to be employed by his Department and (b) his Department's payroll in (i) 2018, (ii) 2019, (iii) 2020, (iv) 2021 and (v) 2022 as
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to publish his Department's 25-year plan for the environment before Christmas 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2017
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the sum of the total carbon price is that will remain in place until 2025
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2017
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what components make up the sum of the total carbon price that will remain in place until 2025.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2017
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if it is his Department's policy that the total carbon price should remain at present levels until 2025.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what meetings Ministers of his Department have had with representatives of the Legatum Institute in the last 12 months.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2017
542. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the wind planning guidelines; the status of the strategic environment assessment on these guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50961/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2017
373. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50858/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2017
371. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of a person (details supplied) regarding the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, will be re-examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50824/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2017
369. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department followed the entire EU Council regulations dealing in particular with persons who were under an agri-environment scheme contract such as REPS 1 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50738/17]
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 29 November 2017
Het bericht dat geld verdienen aan CO2 kan en ook nog goed is voor het milieu
Austria · National Council · 28 November 2017
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Logistikzentrum Langenzersdorf
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Government plans to spend on flood and coastal erosion risk management in England in each of the next five years.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 November 2017
489. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers enrolled in AEOS whose contracts will end in 2018, by county, in tabular form; if these persons were eligible to apply under tranche 3 of GLAS while still in an AEOS contract; if they were not eligible to join GLAS, the number of such persons who left AEOS contracts in order to join GLAS by the tranche 3 deadline; the number who stayed in AEOS by the tranche 3 deadline; if such persons will be permitted to join GLAS under a fourth round; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50232/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 November 2017
476. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application by a person (details supplied) for AEOS payments will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49964/17]
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 2017
Disaster Recovery Reform Act This bill amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) to modify the Predisaster Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to: permit the use of technical and financial assistance to establish and carry out enforcement activities to implement codes, specifications, and standards that incorporate the latest hazard-resistant designs; direct the President to establish a National Public Infrastructure Predisaster Mitigation Fund; authorize the President's contribution to the cost of hazard mitigation measures to be used to increase resilience in any area affected by a major disaster; and direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to issue a final rulemaking that defines the terms "resilient" and "resiliency." The bill authorizes the President to: (1) provide hazard mitigation assistance in any area affected by a wildfire for which assistance was provided; (2) provide incentives to invest in measures that increase readiness for, and resilience from, a future major disaster; and (3) waive Stafford Act provisions regarding duplication of benefits. The bill amends the Stafford Act to: (1) authorize states to use federal disaster assistance to directly administer temporary and permanent housing for disaster victims, (2) increase assistance to individuals with disabilities, and (3) establish fixed rates for reimbursing states and localities for costs incurred to implement disaster recovery projects. FEMA shall: (1) provide annual guidance and training for the prioritization of assistance to hospitals and nursing homes during a disaster; (2) issue guidance for the identification of evacuation routes; and (3) review the Unified Federal Environmental and Historic Preservation review process, improve closeout practices, and publish on its website specified information for grant awards and contracts in excess of $1 million. FEMA may establish one or more national veterinary emergency teams at accredited veterinary schools.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 2017
Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3017) to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to reauthorize and improve the brownfields program, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3905) to require congressional approval of any mineral withdrawal or monument designation involving the National Forest System lands in the State of Minnesota, to provide for the renewal of certain mineral leases in such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 2017
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Equitable Rebuild Act of 2017 This bill provides for additional disaster-recovery assistance and other assistance to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with respect to infrastructure, health care, agriculture, education, economic development, and environmental remediation, among other sectors. Specifically, regarding both territories, the bill: provides for the use of certain emergency assistance to rebuild electric grids; establishes several grant programs to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy; subject to specified oversight requirements, increases funding for transportation infrastructure, telecommunications systems, housing, and community development; increases funding for the Medicaid and Medicare programs; temporarily increases social-services block-grant allotments; increases funding for, and otherwise revises, rural and agricultural programs; increases funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs; provides for aid to the Head Start program, elementary and secondary education programs, and higher education programs; increases funding for training and employment services; modifies provisions concerning the earned-income tax credit, the child tax credit, and unemployment assistance; increases funding for economic and community development programs; increases funding for environmental remediation; and otherwise modifies provisions related to emergency funding and disaster-recovery assistance. In addition, the bill: extends Medicaid waiver authority to all territories, provides for Medicaid disproportionate share hospital allotments to the territories, and otherwise revises the Medicaid and Medicare programs with respect to the territories; extends participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to all territories; modifies provisions concerning the application of certain workers' protections in Puerto Rico; and requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to submit to Congress a long-term disaster-relief plan with respect to Puerto Rico and the U.S Virgin Islands.
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 28 November 2017
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 28 November 2017
Wijziging van de begrotingsstaten van het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu (XII) voor het jaar 2017 (wijziging samenhangende met de Najaarsnota)
Austria · National Council · 27 November 2017
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Michael Bernhard, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend Logistikzentrum Langenzersdorf
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of how many staff his Department will employ by the time the UK leaves the EU, and what change there has been in that estimate since the last estimate made be
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 113594, what assessment his Department has made of the range of functions carried out by EU bodies on environmental protection, and wh
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November to Question 111476, on departmental telephone services, whether the same is the case for services provided by his Department's arms-length bodies.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of his Department's overall resource budget for years (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21, and how will that resource be allocated across different areas
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Autumn budget, what his Department's capital budget will be for (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21, and how that spending will be allocated.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vehicles in his Department's fleet are (a) electric vehicles and (b) ultra-low emission vehicles.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if it remains the Government's policy to meet the UK High Level Marine Objectives.
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 24 November 2017
Reactie op het verzoek van het lid Arissen, gedaan tijdens de Regeling van Werkzaamheden van 21 november 2017, over het lozen van GenX in het oppervlaktewater
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 24 November 2017
Position paper Natuur & Milieu t.b.v. hoorzitting/rondetafelgesprek Kunststofketen en zwerfafval d.d. 30 november 2017
Austria · National Council · 23 November 2017
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Dr. Klaus Uwe Feichtinger, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend mutwillige Missachtung gesetzlicher Rahmenbedingungen und damit einhergehende Zerstörung des Umweltbundesamtes als bewährte ExpertInneninstitution zum Zweck der Wahlkampfunterstützung für ÖVP-Landeshauptleute
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the number of vacancies in his Department has been in each month since January 2015; and if he will make a statement
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 23 November 2017
France · Senate · 22 November 2017
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 22 November 2017
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2017
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information on sustainable procurement his Department has requested from the Ministry of Justice in the last year for the purpose of assessing his Department's performance against
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2017
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to enshrine the "polluter pays principle" and the "precautionary principle", as it relates to environmental protection, in British law after the UK leaves the EU; and if so, how.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 November 2017
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to enshrine all the provisions of Article 191(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in British law after the UK leaves the EU; and if so, how.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 November 2017
635. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the support available under the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 to fund a defence for a named party in a judicial review in relation to section 261A of the Planning and Development Act 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49268/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 November 2017
450. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49274/17]
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 20 November 2017
RIVM-rapport GenX in drinkwater