Open Congress : Environment and Hazardous Materials - Major Bill Actions

Bill Introduced: H.R.5976 United States Commission on Rebuilding America for the 21st Century Act

2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

To establish the United States Commission on Rebuilding America for the 21st Century, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5942 National Trauma Center Stabilization Act of 2008

2008-05-01T00:00:00Z

To ensure the continued and future availability of lifesaving trauma health care in the United States and to prevent further trauma center closures and downgrades by assisting trauma centers with uncompensated care costs, core mission services, emergency needs, and information technology.

Bill Introduced: H.Res.1161 Encouraging State and local governments to establish plastic bag recycling programs.

2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Encouraging State and local governments to establish plastic bag recycling programs.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5897 Travel Trailer Residents' Health Registry Act

2008-04-24T00:00:00Z

To establish a health registry to ensure that certain individuals who may have been exposed to formaldehyde in a travel trailer have an opportunity to register for such registry and receive medical treatment for such exposure, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5881 Environment and Public Health Restoration Act of 2008

2008-04-23T00:00:00Z

To direct the President to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate certain Federal rules and regulations for potentially harmful impacts on public health, air quality, water quality, plant and animal wildlife, global climate, or the environment; and to direct Federal departments and agencies to create plans to reverse those impacts that are determined to be harmful by the National Academy of Sciences.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5867 Energy Conservation Through Trees Act

2008-04-22T00:00:00Z

To establish a grant program to assist retail power providers with the establishment and operation of energy conservation programs using targeted residential tree-planting, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5739 Physician Availability Act of 2008

2008-04-09T00:00:00Z

To assure that the services of a nonemergency department physician are available to hospital patients 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week in all non-Federal hospitals with at least 100 licensed beds.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5580 Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act

2008-03-11T00:00:00Z

To amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to phase out the use of mercury in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5577 Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2008

2008-03-11T00:00:00Z

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to extend, modify, and recodify the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to enhance security and protect against acts of terrorism against chemical facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5533 Chemical Facilities Security Act of 2008

2008-03-05T00:00:00Z

To revise and extend the chemical-facility security program under Public Law 109-295, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5527 Toxic Chemical Exposure Reduction Act of 2008

2008-03-04T00:00:00Z

To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect the health of susceptible populations, including pregnant women, infants, and children, by requiring a health advisory, drinking water standard, and reference concentration for trichloroethylene vapor intrusion, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5469 To provide grants for the revitalization of waterfront brownfields.

2008-02-14T00:00:00Z

To provide grants for the revitalization of waterfront brownfields.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5473 Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fill Suspension and Consumer Protection Act of 2008

2008-02-14T00:00:00Z

To increase the supply and lower the cost of petroleum by temporarily suspending the acquisition of petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5132 Environmental Justice Renewal Act

2008-01-23T00:00:00Z

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice to provide guidance to Federal agencies on the development of criteria for identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low-income populations, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4936 Antifreeze Bittering Act of 2007

2008-01-15T00:00:00Z

To amend the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to require engine coolant and antifreeze to contain a bittering agent so as to render it unpalatable.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4857 To limit liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 for service station dealers with respect to the release or threatened release of recycled oil.

2007-12-19T00:00:00Z

To limit liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 for service station dealers with respect to the release or threatened release of recycled oil.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4775 Compound 1080 and M-44 Elimination Act

2007-12-18T00:00:00Z

To prohibit the manufacture, processing, possession, or distribution in commerce of the poison sodium fluoroacetate (known as "Compound 1080"), to provide for the collection and destruction of remaining stocks of Compound 1080, to compensate persons who turn in Compound 1080 to the Secretary of Agriculture for destruction, to prohibit the use of certain predator control devices by the federal government, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4652 Environmental Justice Access and Implementation Act of 2007

2007-12-13T00:00:00Z

To direct each Federal agency to establish an Environmental Justice Office, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4292 Superior National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2007

2007-12-05T00:00:00Z

To authorize the sale of certain National Forest System lands in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4196 National Public Notification of Environmental Hazards Act of 2007

2007-11-15T00:00:00Z

To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to improve public notification and community relations concerning actions for the removal of environmental hazards.