Below are summaries of Bills Introduced, Committee Reports, Chamber Actions, and Public Laws reported in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update.
The bill would amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of coastal changes.
The bill would provide for the conduct of an analysis of the impact of energy development and production on the water resources of the United States.
The bill would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the National Estuary Program.
The bill would provide incentives to encourage the development and implementation of technology to capture carbon dioxide from dilute sources on a significant scale using direct air capture technologies.
The bill would authorize the Secretary of Energy to carry out a program to demonstrate the commercial application of integrated systems for long-term geological storage of carbon dioxide.
The bill would promote marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy research and development.
which would make appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, was passed by the House.
which would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the Administrator of EPA from taking action to supersede a state's determination that a discharge will comply with effluent limitations, water quality standards, controls on the discharge of pollutants, and toxic and pretreatment effluent standards under the Act, was passed by the House.
which would direct the President to expedite the consideration and approval of the construction and operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, was passed by the House.
would make appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012