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March 21, 2022
The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on March 15 to review opportunities for advancing public transportation under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L.117-58). The law authorizes up to $108 billion over the next five years to support federal public transportation projects such as replacing transit vehicles with low- and no-emissions models.
On March 16, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing on U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that could be included in the 2023 farm bill to help mitigate climate change. To learn more on agriculture and climate, check out EESI’s article series on policies and practices supporting sustainable agriculture.
March 18, 2022
Senate
Latest Committee Action
There was no environmental or energy activity in the Senate on March 18, 2022.
House
H.R.4374
Broadband Internet Connections for Rural America Act
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13] (Introduced 07/09/2021) Cosponsors: (0)
Committees: House - Agriculture; Energy and Commerce
Committee Report: H. Rept. 117-113
Latest Action: House - 03/18/2022 House Committee on Energy and Commerce Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than April 29, 2022.
H.R.7119
To amend the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to authorize the selection of eligible projects to be carried out using collaborative project delivery methods, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3] (Introduced 03/17/2022) Cosponsors: (1)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure; Energy and Commerce
Latest Action: House - 03/18/2022 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
H.R.7131
To promote economic growth and recovery throughout the Great Lakes region, to restore and to protect America's principal source of fresh water, which holds twenty percent of the world's freshwater, making it the largest system in the world, to foster innovation and to advance world-class workforce, education, training, and adjustment institutions for better jobs in the Great Lakes region, to strengthen and to expand the core U.S. manufacturing and industrial base, and the required energy systems to sustain and to power production, and to work with the federal Government and provinces of Canada on our mutual Great Lakes challenges including the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] (Introduced 03/17/2022) Cosponsors: (8)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure; Financial Services
H.R.7155
To prohibit the importation of petroleum and petroleum products from the Russian Federation, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish an income tax credit for the sale or blending of certain fuels containing ethanol and to extend tax incentives for biodiesel and renewable diesel, to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid vapor pressure limitations under that Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4] (Introduced 03/18/2022) Cosponsors: (3)
Committees: House - Ways and Means; Energy and Commerce; Agriculture
Latest Action: House - 03/18/2022 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of...
March 17, 2022
S.3879
A bill to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promulgate regulations on regional and interregional transmission planning, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] (Introduced 03/17/2022) Cosponsors: (3)
Committees: Senate - Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Action: Senate - 03/17/2022 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
H.R.7115
To amend the Natural Gas Act to expedite approval of exports of small volumes of natural gas, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Cammack, Kat [R-FL-3] (Introduced 03/17/2022) Cosponsors: (26)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce
Latest Action: House - 03/17/2022 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Latest Action: House - 03/17/2022 Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of...
H.R.7143
To provide for energy rebates to individual taxpayers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5] (Introduced 03/17/2022) Cosponsors: (2)
Committees: House - Ways and Means
Latest Action: House - 03/17/2022 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
March 16, 2022
S.623
Sunshine Protection Act of 2021
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] (Introduced 03/09/2021) Cosponsors: (18)
Committees: Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Latest Action: Senate - 03/16/2022 Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Hearings
CLEAN WATER STATE REVOLVING LOAN FUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund formula, after receiving testimony from Jonathan L. Ramseur, Specialist in Environmental Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Laura Watson, Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, on behalf of the Environmental Council of the States' Water Committee; and Thomas W. Sigmund, NEW Water, Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Cleveland, both on behalf of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies.
H.R.5001
Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Recovery Act
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (Introduced 08/10/2021) Cosponsors: (6)
Committees: House - Natural Resources | Senate - Energy and Natural Resources
Committee Report: H. Rept. 117-263
Latest Action: Senate - 03/16/2022 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
A 2022 REVIEW OF THE FARM BILL: THE ROLE OF USDA PROGRAMS IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Agriculture: Full Committee held a hearing entitled ``A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: The Role of USDA Programs in Addressing Climate Change''. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
ENERGY, INSTALLATIONS, AND ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM UPDATE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness held a hearing entitled ``Energy, Installations, and Environment Program Update''. Testimony was heard from the following Department of Defense officials: Paul Cramer, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense, Energy, Installations, and Environment; Paul Farnan, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army, Energy, Installations, and Environment; Meredith Berger, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, Installations, and the Environment; and Edwin Oshiba, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Energy, Installations, and the Environment.
FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE: EVALUATING THE ROLE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT IN REDUCING CATASTROPHIC WILDFIRES
Committee on Oversight and Reform: Subcommittee on Environment held a hearing entitled ``Fighting Fire with Fire: Evaluating the Role of Forest Management in Reducing Catastrophic Wildfires''. Testimony was heard from Randy Moore, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and public witnesses.
BIOENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE FUELS AND CHEMICALS OF TOMORROW
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy held a hearing entitled ``Bioenergy Research and Development for the Fuels and Chemicals of Tomorrow''. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
PROPOSALS FOR A WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2022: MEMBERS' DAY HEARING
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment held a hearing entitled ``Proposals for a Water Resources Development Act of 2022: Members' Day Hearing''. Testimony was heard from Representatives Fletcher, Wittman, Garcia of Texas, Porter, Tlaib, Allen, Soto, Higgins of New York, Gottheimer, Costa, Miller of Illinois, Issa, Wasserman Schultz, Newhouse, Schrader, Tonko, Carter of Georgia, Schrier, Trahan, Blunt Rochester, Meng, Mrvan, Foster, Mann, Bishop of Georgia, Blumenauer, Luria, Sessions, Stansbury, Trone, Correa, Lee of Nevada, Plaskett, Valadao, and Case.
March 15, 2022
S.3843
A bill to require the Environmental Protection Agency to issue analyses on the environmental and economic impacts of rules and rulemakings of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (Introduced 03/15/2022) Cosponsors: (0)
Committees: Senate - Environment and Public Works
Latest Action: Senate - 03/15/2022 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
ADVANCING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine advancing public transportation under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, after receiving testimony from Joanna M. Pinkerton, Central Ohio Transit Authority, Columbus; Collie Greenwood, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, Georgia; Greg Regan, Transportation Trades Department, Washington, D.C.; Dorothy Moses Schulz, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York, New York; and Randal O'Toole, Thoreau Institute, Concord, Massachusetts.
H.R.3113
MAPLand Act
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1] (Introduced 05/11/2021) Cosponsors: (11)
Committees: House - Natural Resources; Agriculture; Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Action: House - 03/15/2022 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Committees: House - Natural Resources
H.R.7093
To withdraw certain Federal land in the San Bernardino National Forest in California from location, entry, and patent under mining laws, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-8] (Introduced 03/15/2022) Cosponsors: (0)
Latest Action: House - 03/15/2022 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
March 14, 2022
There was no environmental or energy activity in Congress on March 11, 2022.
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