Responsible for all matters pertaining to air, water, energy, and land use, including water resources/management, stormwater, pesticides, air quality standards, solid, hazardous, and nuclear waste handling, transport, and disposal, national energy policy, renewable/alternative energy, alternative fuel vehicles, energy facility siting, electricity utility restructuring, pipeline safety, oil spills, superfund/brownfields, eminent domain, land use, coastal management, oceans, parks and recreation.
Environment, Energy & Land Use Steering Committee
Policy Briefs
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Policy Brief
NACo Submits Detailed Comments on Proposed “Waters of the U.S.” Rule
UPDATE ON WOTUS RULEMAKING -
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Policy Brief
Unfunded Mandates and Other Regulatory Impacts on Counties
Unfunded Mandates and Other Regulatory Impacts on Counties -
Policy Brief
Support Authorization of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)
ACTION NEEDED: Urge federal lawmakers to pass a Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) bill during the 116th Congress and continue a regular two-year authorization cycle. -
Policy Brief
Support Efforts to Make Clean Water Act Requirements Affordable and Achievable Through Integrated Planning
ACTION NEEDED:
Latest Resources
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Video |
Nov. 20, 2019
Coos County, Ore. Commissioner Melissa Cribbins testifies before the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Press Release |
Sep. 12, 2019
Washington – The National Association of Counties (NACo) today responded to the Environmental Protection Agency’s and Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to withdraw the 2015 "Waters of the U.S." definition and replace it with previous regulations.
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Document |
Jul. 31, 2019
ACTION NEEDED:
Counties are encouraged to continue to engage with the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau on its ongoing efforts to write consumer protection rules for Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy programs.
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