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Summary:
The ordinance requires the City would annually disclose energy and water use in all its facilities beginning in 2013 for the 2012 calendar year. All large and medium buildings or groups of buildings would be...
Topic:
Reports and Disclosure, Buildings - Energy Efficiency, Buildings - Energy Efficiency
Year:
2013
Source:
Boston City Council
Summary:
This bill prohibits stores that have a specified amount of dollar sales or retail floor space from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer. The bill requires these stores to meet other specified...
Topic:
Waste and Recycling
Year:
2013
Source:
California Legislature
Summary:
This bill would authorize the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to require the four largest investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to provide a financing mechanism called on-bill repayment (OBR) for...
Topic:
Renewable Energy, Utilities
Year:
2013
Source:
California Legislature
Summary:
This bill requires all businesses in the state to charge a ten cent fee for each foam disposable food container provided to a customer. It directs collected fees to a special account of the environmental...
Topic:
Waste and Recycling
Year:
2013
Source:
Hawaii Legislature
Summary:
This act establishes the Maryland Pesticide Reporting and Information Workgroup; provides for the composition, co-chairs, and staffing of the Workgroup; requires the Workgroup to study and make...
Topic:
Agriculture and Forestry, Public Health, Public Health
Year:
2013
Source:
Maryland Legislature
Summary:
The Bill requires investor-owned utilities to provide at least 1 percent solar electricity by the end of the year 2025; requires investor-owned utilities to invest 1-1/3 percent of their annual retail sales...
Topic:
Renewable Energy, Utilities
Year:
2013
Source:
Minnesota Legislature
Summary:
This bill requires food to be labeled as produced entirely or in part from genetic engineering if it is a product: offered for retail sale in Vermont; and entirely or partially produced with genetic...
Topic:
Nutrition, Public Health, Public Health
Year:
2013
Source:
Vermont Legislature
Summary:
The bill would require the Vermont Pension Investment Committee to divest from companies that have as a principle business the extraction, production, or manufacture of fossil fuels over a three year period....
Topic:
Public Investment Funds, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change
Year:
2013
Source:
Vermont Leigislature
Summary:
This model ordinance requires that a municipal public fund create a list of fossil fuel companies that match specific criteria and divest all direct and indirect holdings in companies on this list over a...
Topic:
Public Investment Funds, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change
Year:
2013
Source:
ALICE
Summary:
H. 2532 would levy a tax on sellers of fuel; provide for reporting by the secretary of administration and finance; and create a Carbon Tax Revenue Fund, that would distribute revenues toward transportation...
Topic:
Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Taxation - Energy, Taxation - Sales, Taxation - Use
Year:
2013
Source:
Massachusetts Legislature