Below are summaries of Bills Introduced, Committee Reports, Chamber Actions, and Public Laws reported in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update.
would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand the credit for qualifying advanced energy projects.
provide for the transfer of excess Department of Defense aircraft to the Forest Service for wildfire suppression activities
would require the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program: 2012-2017 and conduct additional oil and gas lease sales to promote offshore energy development.
would amend the Natural Gas Act to provide assistance to states to carry out initiatives to promote the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel.
would authorize studies of certain areas for possible inclusion in the National Park System.
would prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.
would direct the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) in accordance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and other applicable law.
would amend the Clean Air Act to partially waive the renewable fuel standard when corn inventories are low.
would prohibit the sale of billfish.
would amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.