Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
American Water Stewardship Act
The bill extends and clarifies federal water and coastal programs to provide multi‑year stability, improved monitoring, funding flexibility, and oversight—at the cost of higher potential federal spending, added burdens on small/local recipients, eligibility limits tied to national‑security concerns, and possible administrative disruptions.
Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act
The bill opens U.S. airspace to civil supersonic flight under strict noise conditions—boosting industry opportunities and protecting nearby communities from increased noise—but may raise development costs, create enforcement and legal challenges, and pressure the FAA to rush rulemaking.
Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025
The bill directs modest, targeted federal funding and emergency funds to strengthen sea turtle rescue and response while adding federal cost and compliance requirements that may burden small rehab groups and leave non-emergency conservation needs reliant on future appropriations.
North Rim Restoration Act
The bill speeds recovery and restoration of North Rim facilities and services through time-limited, streamlined and noncompetitive contracting authorities and clearer responsibilities, but does so at the cost of reduced competition, increased fiscal and integrity risks, potential exclusion of nearby
To reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009.
The bill secures predictable federal funding and clearer governance to strengthen coastal observation and data sharing, improving monitoring and coordination for coastal stakeholders while imposing modest federal costs and potential administrative and implementation burdens on partner agencies and researchers.
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill directs substantial new federal support, coordination, and regulatory changes to speed housing production, preserve and repair affordable units, and strengthen tenant/homeowner protections—especially for disaster-affected and low-income households—but it does so while easing some environmental and procedural safeguards, increasing administrative burdens and funding uncertainty, and creating trade-offs that may dilute resources or disrupt markets.
Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act
The bill secures a specific emergency egress route and mandates environmental and alternatives reviews to reduce harm, but it also constrains federal discretion to deny the right-of-way and may create local environmental impacts and upfront cost burdens.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill improves regional water delivery and utility operations and expands protected lands, but it shifts some costs to taxpayers and raises environmental risks near the newly expanded conservation area unless mitigation and disposal siting are carefully managed.
Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act
SPEED Act
The bill speeds permitting and reduces litigation uncertainty—benefiting businesses, projects, and governments—at the cost of narrower environmental and judicial review, reduced public participation, and increased risks to health, environmental quality, and environmental justice.
ESTUARIES Act
The bill makes Mississippi Sound eligible for coordinated estuary protection—potentially improving local water quality—but delays in funding and implementation plus possible new regulatory and administrative burdens could shift costs onto local governments, businesses, and taxpayers.
Pit River Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill transfers ~584 acres into federal trust to strengthen Pit River Tribe landholdings and access to federal programs, while trading off potential gaming revenue for the tribe and reducing federally managed multi-use public land that may affect local access.
PERMIT Act
The bill prioritizes faster, cheaper permitting and greater regulatory certainty for farmers, developers, and state agencies, but does so by narrowing federal oversight and public review in ways that raise substantial risks to water quality, public health, ecosystem protections, and potential costs to local communities and taxpayers.
Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act
The bill accelerates and clarifies pipeline permitting—reducing delays and improving coordination and security attention—but does so by limiting other agencies' and local/tribal input and environmental safeguards, increasing the risk of rushed reviews and potential conflicts of interest.
Studying NEPA’s Impact on Projects Act
The bill increases transparency and planning reliability for NEPA-related projects by mandating standardized public reporting of litigation, timelines, and costs, but it creates administrative burdens, risks sensitive disclosures, may produce misleading small-sample comparisons, and could incentivize agencies to prioritize metrics over substantive environmental review.
EPermit Act
The bill aims to speed permitting and reduce duplication through standardized, interoperable data and a central digital portal—helping agencies and applicants while increasing transparency—but it raises significant near‑term costs, privacy/security and proprietary risks, and implementation challenges that could constrain agency flexibility and affect environmental oversight.
STEWARD Act of 2025
The bill directs targeted federal grants, data, and technical assistance to expand recycling infrastructure—especially in underserved areas—but funding levels, local matching requirements, omission of education funding, and potential data and administrative burdens risk limiting reach and long‑term effectiveness.
Legacy Mine Cleanup Act of 2025
The bill creates a coordinated federal effort to identify and prioritize cleanup of abandoned uranium and hardrock mines—potentially improving health, environment, and local contracting—while relying on future appropriations and limited enforcement authority, which may delay or limit actual remediation outcomes.
REUSE Act of 2025
Expressing support for the designation of the week of October 24, 2025, to October 31, 2025, as "Bat Week".
The bill aims to protect bats and preserve the large agricultural value they provide by funding coordinated monitoring, research, and outreach—improving conservation and disease response—at the cost of modest federal spending, potential limits on some land uses, and possible public concern about wildlife disease.
Designating the week beginning on October 12, 2025, as "National Wildlife Refuge Week".
Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 20 through September 27, 2025, as "National Estuaries Week".
This resolution highlights and legitimizes the economic, safety, and environmental value of estuaries—helping build support and coordination for protection and restoration—while offering no direct funding and creating potential regulatory expectations and competition for limited resources that could raise costs for some businesses and leave some communities feeling disadvantaged.
Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal monitoring, funding, and equity‑focused support to detect and respond to harmful algal blooms—improving public health protections for coastal, freshwater, and vulnerable communities—but does so with modest, time‑limited funds and new federal requirements that may strain local capacity, shift existing NOAA grant priorities, and alter how resources are allocated between national and local events.
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
The bill substantially improves wildfire forecasting, data sharing, and response capacity—particularly benefiting rural, tribal, and responder communities—while increasing administrative demands, raising data-security/privacy risks, and creating the potential for significant new federal spending that depends on future appropriations.
Mid-Atlantic River Basin Commissions Review Act
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens Coast Guard capacity, personnel support, maritime safety, and victim protections while increasing federal spending, adding significant administrative and procurement constraints, and introducing privacy, legal, and readiness tradeoffs that must be managed.
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill trades localized economic gains and faster, more transparent permitting for construction and a modest one‑time federal receipt against risks to public land access, environmental protections, and longer‑term public control of national forest parcels.
South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act of 2025
The bill centralizes clearer enforcement and administrative flexibility to improve fisheries management and safety, but it does so by expanding agency discretion and confidentiality while increasing compliance burdens and creating legal uncertainty for some landowners and fishery participants.
Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025
The bill would clarify and accelerate state-led and community-driven mine cleanup—improving water quality and coordination—but does so by shifting substantial financial and legal responsibility to States, imposing technical and procedural barriers on small community actors, and includes a sunset that creates significant future uncertainty.
To provide for a memorandum of understanding to address the impacts of a certain record of decision on the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.
The bill creates a coordinated, transparent planning process to assess and address hydropower and species impacts from the 2024 Record of Decision—improving reliability planning and conservation information—while risking delayed mitigation, potential reductions in hydropower output, and higher costs for taxpayers or ratepayers.
