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April 13, 2021
From March 29 to April 9, Congress introduced a total of 38 bills, resolutions, and amendments related to environmental and energy topics. All legislation introduced during this period was in the House.
Highlights
Congress experienced a lull in introducing legislation and holding committee hearings, as members of both the Senate and House were occupied by state and district work over the last few weeks. Nonetheless, a few bills were introduced in the House during this period, some of which dealt with environmental justice issues. For example, H.R.2434 and H.R.2397 propose cumulative impacts assessments as a tool for environmental justice and enhanced regulatory action by federal agencies. Other bills introduced during this period address the topic of waste. Among these, H.R.2396 and H.R.2238 seek to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to improve the safe disposal of coal combustion residuals and single-use plastics, respectively.
Senate
Bills referred to committee
None relevant.
Committee hearings
House
H.R.2436 - To amend title 38, United States Code, to concede exposure to airborne hazards and toxins from burn pits under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI-8] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs; Armed Services
H.R.2434 - To require Federal agencies to address environmental justice, to require consideration of cumulative impacts in certain permitting decisions, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Natural Resources; Transportation and Infrastructure; Judiciary
H.R.2431 - To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants to entities to enable such entities to participate in decisions impacting the health and safety of their communities in connection with the release of certain hazardous air pollutants and the permitting of solid waste disposal facilities and hazardous waste facilities, and for other purposes.
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce
H.R.2415 - To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to permanently plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells and the surrounding lands and to provide funds to States and Tribal Governments to permanently plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells and the surrounding lands, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Leger Fernandez, Teresa [D-NM-3] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
H.R.2406 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a tax credit for installation of regionally significant electric power transmission lines.
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
Committees: House - Ways and Means
H.R.2397 - To advance environmental justice by addressing cumulative impacts and underenforcement, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Natural Resources
H.R.2396 - To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to ensure the safe disposal of coal combustion residuals.
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
H.R.2394 - To provide for the establishment of a Climate Justice Working Group to help guide the Nation's just and equitable transition towards a clean, climate-resilient, zero-emission economy, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
H.R.2393 - To amend the Sherman Act to make oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal.
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
Committees: House - Judiciar
H.R.2386 - To authorize appropriations for the maritime environmental and technical assistance program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure
H.R.2369 - To require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide rebates for expenditures for energy efficient electrotechnologies that are used to replace fossil fuel-fired technologies, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1] (Introduced 04/05/2021)
H.R.2361 - To amend the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish the Rural Innovation and Partnership Administration and to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish the Rural Future Partnership Fund to invest in the rural areas of the United States to achieve their preferred future while maximizing their contribution to the well-being of the United States, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Delgado, Antonio [D-NY-19] (Introduced 04/05/2021)
Committees: House - Agriculture; Financial Services; Energy and Commerce
H.R.2357 - To establish the Recycling Infrastructure Program within the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Cardenas, Tony [D-CA-29] (Introduced 04/05/2021)
H.R.2348 - To maximize land management efficiencies, promote land conservation, generate education funding, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
H.R.2346 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 10-year straight line depreciation for energy efficient qualified improvement property, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
H.R.2330 - To provide that the Secretary of the Interior may not use COVID-19 as a basis for restricting or limiting outdoor recreational use of land or water administered by the National Park Service, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. McClain, Lisa C. [R-MI-10] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
H.R.2325 - To conserve global bear populations by prohibiting the importation, exportation, and interstate trade of bear viscera and items, products, or substances containing, or labeled or advertised as containing, bear viscera, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
Committees: House - Natural Resources; Foreign Affairs; Ways and Means
H.R.2313 - To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for better protection of workers using registered pesticides, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-3] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
Committees: House - Agriculture
H.R.2310 - To require the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a Climate Change Education Program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Education and Labor
H.R.2309 - To improve dam and hydropower safety, and for other purposes.
H.R.2307 - To create a Carbon Dividend Trust Fund for the American people in order to encourage market-driven innovation of clean energy technologies and market efficiencies which will reduce harmful pollution and leave a healthier, more stable, and more prosperous nation for future generations.
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-22] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
Committees: House - Ways and Means; Energy and Commerce; Foreign Affairs
H.R.2306 - To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to apportionments to small transit intensive cities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
H.R.2302 - To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from oil and gas sources, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9] (Introduced 04/01/2021)
H.R.2291 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the publicly traded partnership ownership structure to energy power generation projects and transportation fuels, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5] (Introduced 03/29/2021)
H.R.2238 - To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reduce the production and use of certain single-use plastic products and packaging, to improve the responsibility of producers in the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of their consumer products and packaging, to prevent pollution from consumer products and packaging from entering into animal and human food chains and waterways, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47] (Introduced 03/26/2021)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Ways and Means; Transportation and Infrastructure; Foreign Affairs
H.R.2206 - To amend title 23, United States Code, to modify the transportation finance infrastructure and innovation program with respect to community development financial institutions, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11] (Introduced 03/26/2021)
H.R.2204 - To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish additional requirements for certain transportation projects with estimated costs of $2,500,000,000 or more, and for other purposes.
H.R.2203 - To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to improve public understanding of how transportation investments are made by public agencies through establishing greater transparency and accountability processes.
H.R.2197 - To encourage the research and use of innovative materials and associated techniques in the construction and preservation of the domestic transportation and water infrastructure system, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1] (Introduced 03/26/2021)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure; Science, Space, and Technology; Energy and Commerce
H.R.2187 - To amend title 23, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to set aside certain funds to provide parking for commercial motor vehicles on the Federal-aid highway system, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Bost, Mike [R-IL-12] (Introduced 03/26/2021)
H.R.1291 - Reinforcing Utility Restoration After Losses (RURAL) Act
Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] (Introduced 02/24/2021)
H.R.1602 - Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act of 2021
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10] (Introduced 03/08/2021)
Committees: House - Financial Services; Agriculture
H.R.1389 - Invasive Species Prevention and Forest Restoration Act
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large] (Introduced 02/25/2021)
H.R.1363 - Sustainable Agriculture Research Act
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (Introduced 02/25/2021)
H.R.1352 - Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2021
Sponsor: Rep. Lawrence, Brenda L. [D-MI-14] (Introduced 02/25/2021)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure; Energy and Commerce; Ways and Means; Agriculture
Resolutions referred to committee
H.Res.295 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Trade Representative should promptly resume negotiations to conclude the Environmental Goods Agreement.
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] (Introduced 04/08/2021)
H.Res.292 - Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 859) to prohibit the President from issuing moratoria on leasing and permitting energy and minerals on certain Federal land, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21] (Introduced 04/05/2021)
Committees: House - Rules
H.Con.Res.25 - Encouraging the Architect of the Capitol to transition to the exclusive use of electricity derived from renewable energy sources to power the United States Capitol Complex by 2032.
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (Introduced 03/26/2021)
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