Environmental Health
North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Environmental Justice in North Carolina [HB-684]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Environmental Justice in North Carolina
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Belk
Passed 1st Reading on 04/03/2025
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Friendly NC Act [HB-645]
Friendly NC Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Amos Quick
Passed 1st Reading on 04/02/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Environmental Justice [SB-597]
[Environmental ]
Environmental Justice
Sponsored by: Sen. Joyce Waddell
Passed 1st Reading on 03/26/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Occupational/Professional Licensing Relief [SB-451]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
Occupational/Professional Licensing Relief
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas McInnis
Withdrawn From Com on 04/07/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Environmental Justice [HB-77]
[Environmental ]
Environmental Justice
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Belk
Passed 1st Reading on 02/11/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Environmental Impact Analysis and Existing Burden Report [HB-1406]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a person applying for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to include with the application a certain environmental impact analysis and, if applicable, a certain existing burden report; altering certain notice requirements; prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity unless the application includes a final environmental impact assessment and, if applicable, a final existing burden report; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Diana Fennell
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Food System Resiliency Council - Healthy Food Priority Area Study [HB-1434]
[Food ]
[Public Health ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring the Maryland Food System Resiliency Council to study and make recommendations regarding strategies to attract and retain supermarket retailers in healthy food priority areas; and requiring the Council to report its findings and recommendations including a review of existing incentives and available financing programs in the State by December 31, 2025, to the Governor and certain committees of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Third Reading Passed (128-10) on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environmental Permits - Requirements for Public Participation and Impact and Burden Analyses (Cumulative Harms to Environmental Restoration For Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) [HB-1484]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Air Quality ]
[Water ]
[Community Development ]
Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a person applying for certain environmental permits for certain projects with an increased potential to cause adverse community environmental and public health impacts to include in the permit application an environmental impact analysis; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jazz Lewis
Hearing Canceled (environment And Transportation) on 03/02/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Healthcare Workforce Reforms [HB-67]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
Healthcare Workforce Reforms
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Belk
Placed On Cal For 06/24/2025 on 06/18/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Dorchester County - Well and On-Site Sewage Disposal Activities - Privatization Program [HB-1124]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority by the Department, to establish a privatization program for the performance of activities associated with the well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority in Dorchester County.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 425 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Dorchester County - Well and On-Site Sewage Disposal Activities - Privatization Program [SB-964]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority by the Department, to establish a privatization program for the performance of activities associated with the well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority in Dorchester County.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 424 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environmental Permits - Requirements for Public Participation and Impact and Burden Analyses (Cumulative Harms to Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) [SB-978]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Air Quality ]
[Water ]
[Community Development ]
Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a person applying for certain environmental permits for certain projects with an increased potential to cause adverse community environmental and public health impacts to include in the permit application an environmental impact analysis; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Packaging and Paper Products - Producer Responsibility Plans [SB-901]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Requiring certain producers of covered materials, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, to submit a certain covered materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval on or before July 1, 2028, and every 5 years thereafter, in accordance with certain requirements, or to develop an alternative collection program; requiring a producer responsibility organization to pay certain costs to the Department; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 431 on 05/13/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Various GSC Recommendations [HB-40]
Various GSC Recommendations
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Davis
Ordered Enrolled on 06/18/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations [HB-902]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Water ]
[Mining ]
Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in establishing the fee; establishing the Statewide Coal Combustion By-Products Coordinating Committee to share information, monitoring results, and certain remedial actions with respect to certain coal combustion by-product sites; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Favorable With Amendments Report By Environment And Transportation on 04/07/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Nuisances. [HB-1120]
[Public Health ]
[Environmental ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Clarifies that the Department of Health has the legal authority and obligation to prevent and address nuisances that affect public health or environmental health, or both. Repeals definition of "nuisance" to include toxic materials used in or by-products of methamphetamine drug labs and odors and filth resulting from feeding feral birds. (SD2)
Sponsored by: Rep. Nadine Nakamura
Act 073, On 05/19/2025 (gov. Msg. No. 1173). on 05/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Empowering New Energy Resources and Green Initiatives Toward a Zero-Emission (ENERGIZE) Maryland Act [SB-434]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Public Health ]
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; altering the contents of and approval criteria for an application for an offshore wind project; establishing a process for the Public Service Commission to review and approve an application for a proposed nuclear energy generation project; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard - Renaming and Alterations [HB-505]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act retroactively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Third Reading Passed (131-3) on 04/07/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Nuisances. [SB-1439]
[Public Health ]
[Environmental ]
[Healthcare ]
Clarifies that the Department of Health has the legal authority and obligation to prevent and address nuisances that affect environmental health or public health, or both. (SD1)
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Kouchi
Pass First Reading on 03/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations [SB-425]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Energy ]
[Water ]
[Mining ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the factors that the Department of the Environment is required to consider in establishing a certain fee; requiring the Department to use certain excess fees collected from certain generators of coal combustion by-products for certain purposes; establishing the Statewide Coal Combustion By-Products Coordinating Committee to share information, monitoring results, and certain remedial actions with respect to certain coal combustion by-product sites; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 529 on 05/13/2025