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October 16, 2024
Highlights:
Reps. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Sharice Davids (D-Kan.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) introduced the North American Grasslands Conservation Act (H.R.9945). If enacted, the bill would mandate a grasslands conservation plan and create a grant program for grasslands management and restoration efforts, including a regenerative grazing program.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) introduced the Urban Bird Treaty Act (H.R.9964). The bill would authorize $1 million annually for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Urban Bird Treaty program, which supports community-level bird conservation and works to reduce urban hazards to bird migration, such as toxins, building collisions, and invasive species.
October 11, 2024
House:
Bills Introduced:
H.R.9957
To direct the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study of the feasibility of establishing a refined fuel storage reserve in the Western United States.
Sponsor: Curtis, John R. [Rep.-R-UT-3] Cosponsors: (3)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce
Latest Action: House - 10/11/2024 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
H.R.9964
Urban Bird Treaty Act
Sponsor: Dingell, Debbie [Rep.-D-MI-6] Cosponsors: (0)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: House - 10/11/2024 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
H.R.9969
To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.
Sponsor: Hageman, Harriet M. [Rep.-R-WY-At Large] Cosponsors: (2)
H.R.9970
To prohibit Federal agencies from considering, in taking any action, the social cost of carbon, the social cost of methane, the social cost of nitrous oxide, or the social cost of any other greenhouse gas, unless compliant with Office of Management and Budget guidance, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Hudson, Richard [Rep.-R-NC-9] Cosponsors: (12)
Committees: House - Oversight and Accountability; Judiciary
Latest Action: House - 10/11/2024 Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker.
H.R.9971
To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to affirm that the prohibition on the unauthorized take or killing of migratory birds of that Act includes incidental take, and to direct the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to authorize such incidental take, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Huffman, Jared [Rep.-D-CA-2] Cosponsors: (1)
H.R.9972
To implement the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, and for other purposes.
Committees: House - Natural Resources; Foreign Affairs
Latest Action: House - 10/11/2024 Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker.
H.R.9981
To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine.
Sponsor: Nadler, Jerrold [Rep.-D-NY-12] Cosponsors: (3)
Committees: House - Agriculture
Latest Action: House - 10/11/2024 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
H.R.9982
To require the Office of Children's Health Protection to be maintained within the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Nadler, Jerrold [Rep.-D-NY-12] Cosponsors: (11)
H.R.9988
To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to ensure airfare fairness in the wake of a disaster or emergency, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Velázquez, Nydia M. [Rep.-D-NY-7] Cosponsors: (0)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Action: House - 10/11/2024 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Senate:
No environmental or energy activity in the Senate today.
October 10, 2024
The House and Senate did not meet today.
October 9, 2024
October 8, 2024
H.R.9945
North American Grasslands Conservation Act
Sponsor: Mace, Nancy [Rep.-R-SC-1] Cosponsors: (3)
Committees: House - Natural Resources; Agriculture
Latest Action: House - 10/08/2024 Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker.
H.R.9951
To direct the Secretary of Commerce and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide for collaboration between the Economic Development Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to promote economic revitalization efforts of environmentally contaminated sites, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Stevens, Haley M. [Rep.-D-MI-11] Cosponsors: (1)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure; Financial Services; Energy and Commerce
Latest Action: House - 10/08/2024 Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker.
H.Res.1538
Expressing support for the designation of the week beginning on October 13, 2024, as "National Wildlife Refuge Week".
Sponsor: Thompson, Mike [Rep.-D-CA-4] Cosponsors: (5)
Latest Action: House - 10/08/2024 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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