Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Coastal and marine pollution

Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.32 Expressing the sense of Congress that the 40th anniversary of the oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, should be remembered as an ecological and economic disaster that triggered major environmental legislation and helped launch the modern environmental movement, and for other purposes.

2009-01-27T19:00:00Z

Expressing the sense of Congress that the 40th anniversary of the oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, should be remembered as an ecological and economic disaster that triggered major environmental legislation and helped launch the modern environmental movement, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.237 Great Lakes Collaboration Implementation Act of 2009

2009-01-13T19:00:00Z

A bill to establish a collaborative program to protect the Great Lakes, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.365 Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act

2009-01-08T19:00:00Z

To direct the President to establish a program to develop a coordinated and comprehensive Federal ocean and coastal mapping plan for the Great Lakes and coastal state waters, the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, and the continental shelf of the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.170 Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act

2009-01-07T19:00:00Z

A bill to authorize the acquisition of interests in undeveloped coastal areas in order better to ensure their protection from development and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.173 Federal Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 2009

2009-01-07T19:00:00Z

A bill to establish an interagency committee to develop an ocean acidification research and monitoring plan and to establish an ocean acidification program within NOAA.

Bill Introduced: S.174 Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act

2009-01-07T19:00:00Z

A bill to establish a coordinated and comprehensive Federal ocean and coastal mapping program.

Bill Introduced: H.R.53 Bad Polluters Act of 2009

2009-01-05T19:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny refinery expensing to owners of refineries that are permitted to increase the discharge of pollutants into the Great Lakes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.54 Great Lakes Water Protection Act

2009-01-05T19:00:00Z

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a deadline for restricting sewage dumping into the Great Lakes and to fund programs and activities for improving wastewater discharges into the Great Lakes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.21 Ocean Conservation, Education, and National Strategy for the 21st Century Act

2009-01-05T19:00:00Z

To establish a national policy for our oceans, to strengthen the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a national and regional ocean governance structure, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.14 Federal Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 2009

2009-01-05T19:00:00Z

To provide for ocean acidification research and monitoring, and for other purposes.