This page covers the current US House & Senate sponsored bills, resolutions and alike. I am catching up with what's going on the floor, so the lists are far from exhaustive. The tag π indicates bills added to these tables this week, or congress actions that happen this week and to pay attention to.
At the moment there is a continuous assault on the environment and initiated by the republicans. Multiple bills often similar even identical are introduced sometimes under different names. It is certainly overwhelming for citizens who want to monitor them. Yet it is critical that we call and share with friendly constituents from Red states so that they can call. Call your reps, call the committees associated with each bill and pass along.
At the moment there is a continuous assault on the environment and initiated by the republicans. Multiple bills often similar even identical are introduced sometimes under different names. It is certainly overwhelming for citizens who want to monitor them. Yet it is critical that we call and share with friendly constituents from Red states so that they can call. Call your reps, call the committees associated with each bill and pass along.
Bill Categories:
- Environmental Protection
- Energy
- Public Lands & Natural Resources
- Water Resources & Development
- Nature & Wildlife Conservation
Note: A bill is not Law until it goes through the whole process. So: it is not because a House Vote passed a armful bill, that our call work is done. The next phase is a Senate Vote, then keep calling and make sure to reach your Senators and the committee(s), asking them assertively oppose (or support accordingly). Make everybody along the chain accountable.
Ref Sources include Congress⭑Gov, GovTrack. | Last Update: 04/07/17.
Environmental Protection
All Environmental Protection Bills: Republican Bills | Democrat Bills
Bills
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Status
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H.R.861 — To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.
⇨ Attack on EPA. The title should be clear enough.
(Introduced 02/03/2017)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Science, Space, and Technology
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
// In this case there are 4 enlisted committees:
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S.263 — Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017
⇨ Attack on EPA: Delay of implementation and of the review of pollutant regulations.
Committees: Senate - Environment and Public Works
Latest Action: 02/01/2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
How? π Call your Reps + Committee // in this case the Environment and Public Works committee (Majority office {R}: 202-224-6176, Minority office {D}: 202-224-8832))
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S.203 — RPM Act of 2017
(Introduced 01/24/2017)
Committees: Senate - Environment and Public Works
Latest Action: 01/24/2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
How? π Call your Reps + Committee // in this case the Environment and Public Works committee (Majority office {R}: 202-224-6176, Minority office {D}: 202-224-8832)
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H.R.1105 — Stop WOTUS Act
⇨ Basically for repealing the Clean Water Rule.
WOTUS is a rule issued under the Clean Water Act by the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers designed to redefine the scope of waters protected and regulated by the Federal Government. This bill intends to dismantle it.
(Introduced 02/16/2017)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Action: 02/17/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
How? π Call your Reps + Committee // in this case the Transportation and Infrastructure (202 225-9446)
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H.R.958 — Wasteful EPA Programs Elimination Act of 2017
⇨ Attack on EPA: To eliminate certain programs of the EPA, and for other purposes.
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Science, Space, and Technology
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment. Action By: House Energy and Commerce
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
// In this case there are 4 enlisted committees:
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Energy
All Energy Bills: Republican Bills | Democrat Bills
Bills
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Status
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H.R.928 — Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act
⇨ Attack on EPA. Attempt to deregulate. This bill pushes that a State shall have the sole authority to promulgate or enforce any regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding the treatment of a well by the application of fluids under pressure to which propping agents may be added for the expressly designed purpose of initiating or propagating fractures in a target geologic formation in order to enhance production of oil, natural gas, or geothermal production activities on or under any land within the boundaries of the State.
(Introduced 02/07/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce
Latest Action: 02/24/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
// In this case there are 4 enlisted committees:
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S.49 — Alaska Oil and Gas Production Act
⇨ Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have introduced legislation to allow oil companies to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The Alaska Oil and Gas Production Act, (S. 49), would allow oil fields to be built in exceptionally wild habitat, forever despoiling one of the last truly wild places in America.
Committees: Senate - Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Action: 01/05/2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S115-116).
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
How? π Call your Reps + Committee // in this case the Energy and Natural Resources: (202 224-4971)
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Public Lands and Natural Resources
All Public Land and Natural Resources Bills: Republican Bills | Democrat Bills
Bills
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Status
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H.R.200 — Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act
⇨ H.R.200 isn’t Young’s first crack at revamping the fish bill. The new version closely resembles H.R. 1335, a Young sponsored bill that sailed through the House in 2015. But while Young’s last reauthorization attempt stalled out—in part because then president Barack Obama threatened to veto it—Republican control of the White House could give H.R. 200 a better chance than its predecessor.
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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H.R.622 — Local Enforcement for Local Lands Act
⇨ This bill pushes to terminate the law enforcement functions of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management and to provide block grants to States for the enforcement of Federal law on Federal land under the jurisdiction of these agencies, and for other purposes. I.e., would make it easier for organizations to violate the protections for public lands.
(Introduced 01/24/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources, Agriculture
Latest Action: 02/13/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
How? π Call your Reps + Committee // in this case the Natural Resource committee (202-225-2761) + Agriculture (202-225-2171)
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H.R.621 — Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2017
⇨ Basically selling off federal lands. To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain Federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as suitable for disposal, and for other purposes.
(Introduced 01/24/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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H.R.232 — State National Forest Management Act of 2017
⇨ Could be named the Forest Fire Sale Bill. This bill introduced by Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), would take two million acres of National Forest System land away from Americans to be managed solely for timber production (read: short-term profit.) Just a friendly reminder that this could transfer management of all of Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest to the state.
(Introduced 01/03/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources, Agriculture
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
How? π Call your Reps + Committee // in this case the Natural Resource committee (202-225-2761) + Agriculture (202-225-2171)
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H.R.222 — To amend the National Marine Sanctuaries Act to prescribe an additional requirement for the designation of marine sanctuaries off the coast of Alaska, and for other purposes.
⇨ The Secretary may not designate as a national marine sanctuary any area of the marine environment off the coast of Alaska seaward of the high tide line unless an Act of Congress.
(Introduced 01/03/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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Water Resources & Development
Nature & Wildlife Conservation
All Wildlife Trade & Animal Welfare Bills: Republican Bills | Democrat Bills
Bills
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Status
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π‘ Redefinition of usage of Alaska National Parks, including inhuman killing practices.
⇨ Easing for Over exploitation: attacks on Ecosystems & its wildlife.
Main bill is H.J.Res. 69 // Last action: 03/21/2017 Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 47. Record Vote Number: 92..
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Passed the House: 02/16/17
Passed the Senate: 03/21/17
Became Public Law No: 115-20 on 04/03/17
π‘ Action: Keep talking about it, and spreading the word about this shameful bill. Call/email the White House (Comments: 202-456-1111 /
Email).
Tell the committees and the senators who voted nay that they will be accountable.
How? π Call your Senators + Committee // in this case the Natural Resource committee (202-225-2761)
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S.375 — A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to establish a procedure for approval of certain settlements.
⇨ Attack on the ESA: In short, this bill would give “local governments, Big Oil, Big Agriculture and other industries the right to veto settlement agreements requiring the [Service] to make decisions about the protection of endangered species”.
Committees: Senate - Environment and Public Works
Latest Action: 02/14/2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1162)
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
How? π Call your Reps + Committee // in this case the Environment and Public Works committee (Majority office {R}: 202-224-6176, Minority office {D}: 202-224-8832))
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H.R.717 — Listing Reform Act
⇨ Attack on the ESA: Attempt to weaken endangered species listing criteria, and which makes the time and cost to add species to the ESA insurmountable.
(Introduced 01/27/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: 01/27/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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H.J.Res.60 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to the use of compensatory mitigation as recommended or required under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
⇨ Attack on the ESA and USFWS. Attempt to weaken these 2 organizations, and the Endangered Species Act specifically.
(Introduced 02/02/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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H.J.Res.52 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to "Mitigation Policy".
⇨ Attack on the ESA and USFWS. Attempt to weaken these 2 organizations, and the Endangered Species Act specifically.
(Introduced 01/31/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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H.R.226 — African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act
⇨ Elephant Ivory Trading again. This bill would reauthorize the African Elephant Conservation Act (AECA) through FY2022. That is this bill authorizes: (1) commerce in African elephant ivory or in products containing African elephant ivory that have been lawfully imported or crafted in the United States; and (2) the importation of a sport-hunted African elephant trophy if the trophy was taken from certain elephants populations that at the time were not necessarily threatened with extinction, but may have become so unless trade was closely controlled.
(Introduced 01/03/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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H.R.225 — Restoration of the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Conservation Fund Act
⇨ Allowing again the trophy hunting of polar bears, despite the climate change consequence on their habitat and the precarity of their survival.
(Introduced 01/03/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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H.R.224 — Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act
⇨ This bill intends to the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada.
(Introduced 01/03/2017)
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
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H.R.424 —Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2017 +
S.164 — A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the final rules relating to the listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and the State of Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act…
⇨ There is actually much more at stakes than protecting wolves with the legislation introduced in both the House (H.R. 424) and Senate (S. 164), aptly described as the “War on Wolves Act”. These would strip federal Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves in Wyoming and three western Great Lakes states. Compounding the harm caused by delisting, this bill includes a provision that would make it impossible for people to challenge the decision in court, effectively stripping away Americans’ democratic right to hold their government accountable.
Committees: House - Natural Resources
Latest Action: 01/10/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Committees: Senate - Environment and Public Works
Latest Action: 01/17/2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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⚠ Next: House Vote
π‘ Action: Oppose
How? π Call your Reps + Committees // in this case the House committee Natural Resource committee (202-225-2761), and the Senate committee for Environment and Public Works (Majority office {R}: 202-224-6176, Minority office {D}: 202-224-8832))
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