Environmental Law and Policy/Governance
H.R. 8682
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Ways and Means
Sponsor Name
Huffman
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
8
Volume
54
Update Issue
17
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H3724

would amend the Internal Revenue Code to expand the exclusion for certain conservation subsidies to include subsidies for water conservation or efficiency measures, stormwater management measures, and wastewater management measures.

H.R. 8656
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, Education and the Workforce, Oversight and Accountability, Armed Services, Energy and Commerce, Science, Space, and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business
Sponsor Name
Harder
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
8
Volume
54
Update Issue
17
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H3679

would provide for the implementation of certain recommendations from the Report of the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission.

H.R. 8618
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Thompson
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Miss.
Issue
8
Volume
54
Update Issue
16
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. H3655

would require EPA to assess the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with forest biomass combustion for electricity when developing relevant rules and regulations and to carry out a study on the impacts of the forest biomass industry.

S. 4343
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Sponsor Name
Cantwell
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Wash.
Issue
7
Volume
54
Update Issue
15
Update Volume
54
Congress Number
118
Congressional Record Number
170 Cong. Rec. S3710

would establish and maintain a coordinated program within NOAA that improves wildfire, fire weather, fire risk, and smoke related forecasting, detection, modeling, observations, and service delivery, and to address growing needs in the wildland-urban interface.