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Legislative Update: Plastics & Recycling Appropriations
July 23, 2020
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committees used the FY2021 spending bills as an opportunity to focus on Congress’s increasing scrutiny of single-use plastics and the need to reduce plastic […]
Legislative Update: Water Infrastructure Appropriations
July 23, 2020
The U.S. House of Representatives has been busy marking up the FY2021 appropriations bills and intends vote on a package (H.R. 7617) of seven of the 12 annual appropriations bills […]
2020 PVC MACT Update
July 23, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed to reconsider emissions limits of the PVC MACT industry regulation in September 2012, a process that normally takes less than 3 years to […]
States Begin to Refocus on Recycling
July 7, 2020
As states implement varied reopening schedules, some state legislatures started deliberating on legislation beyond COVID-19 and policing issues in recent weeks. Recycling bills, for example, started moving through the legislative […]
Legislative Update: Infrastructure Proposals
June 30, 2020
House Democrats unveiled a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package that the House will take up later this week before the July 4 recess. “The Moving Forward Act” (H.R. 2) includes not […]
Takeaways from the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Hearing on Recycling
June 29, 2020
On June 17, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held an oversight hearing entitled, “Responding to the challenges facing recycling in the United States.” The committee examined the recent […]
Legislative Update: Recycling Bills Move Through Congress
June 11, 2020
Recycling Many in the plastics industry are calling for Congress to include the “The Realizing the Economic Opportunities and Values of Expanding Recycling Act” (RECOVER Act, H.R. 5115) in the next […]
Legislative Update: Paycheck Protection Program
May 28, 2020
Since being rolled out on April 3, 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has issued loans totaling $510 billion to roughly 4.3 million small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite […]