Environment & Energy Congressional Round-Up | July 18-22

Highlights:

This week, several new bills focused on studying wildfires and improving wildfire management. The Fire Ready Nation Act of 2022 (H.R. 8449), introduced in the House, would create a program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to improve wildfire forecasting, detection, modeling and observations. H.R. 8483, which would require studies on insurance coverage for wildfire damage, was also introduced in the House this week. Check out EESI’s briefing Living with Climate Change: Wildfires for a deep dive into policies and practices to reduce wildfire risk in the United States.

The 2023 appropriations bill for the Department of Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban Development, H.R.8294, passed the House.

The House Agriculture Committee held a hearing on stakeholder perspectives of the crop insurance title of the farm bill. To read more about the environmental, energy, and climate highlights of the Congressional hearings in the lead up to the 2023 Farm Bill, check out EESI’s coverage here.

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To see the full update of recent environment and energy legislation from last week, view the PDF.