H.R. 4866
would direct the Administrator of NOAA to establish a program to improve fire weather and fire environment forecasting, detection, and local collaboration.
would direct the Administrator of NOAA to establish a program to improve fire weather and fire environment forecasting, detection, and local collaboration.
This Comment argues that what is needed to make sustainability work for business is a National Business Sustainability Council that would develop and promulgate sustainability criteria, be able to evaluate whether specific small businesses are meeting those criteria, and be able to “certify” that a small business is, in fact, meeting these criteria, and is therefore “sustainable.” It asserts the Council’s criteria and evaluation methodology should be both rigorous and transparent, such that when the Council awards a sustainability certification to a business, the federal and state governments will accept that certification.
would establish an advisory panel to study the development of a climate-friendly certification for agricultural products.
would amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to include as a high-priority research and extension initiative research and extension on precision agriculture workforce development.
would modernize and streamline the permitting process for broadband infrastructure on federal land.
would reauthorize Long Island Sound programs.
would substantially restrict the use of animal testing for cosmetics.
would amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a small farm EQIP subprogram under the environmental quality incentives program.
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