• Delaware (SB 33) Raises the minimum amount of Delaware’s energy that must come from renewable sources by 2035 to 40%. 
• Illinois (SB 2408) Requires the state to reach net-zero emissions by 2045. Includes investments in renewable energy, equitable job opportunities and just transition programs in the clean energy sector, electric vehicle incentives, and much more. 
• Massachusetts (S 9) Requires the state to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and mandates emissions limits every 5 years. 
• North Carolina (HB 951) Mandates that the state Utilities Commission take the steps necessary to reach net-zero carbon emission across electric generating facilities owned or operated by electric public utilities by 2050. 
• Oregon (HB 2021) Requires retail electricity providers to reduce emissions associated with electricity sold by 100% below baseline levels by 2050. 
• Rhode Island (SB 78) Requires the state to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, with regular updates to the state’s mitigation plan.
• Virginia (SB 1282) Requires the state to conduct an emissions inventory every four years to achieve the net-zero by 2045 goal set in 2020.

• Washington (SB 5126) Establishes an economy-wide cap-and-invest program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Requires improvement to air quality in communities disproportionately overburdened by pollution. 

• Maine (LD 336) Directs the Maine Public Utilities Commission to negotiate long-term power purchase agreement to develop floating offshore wind research array. 
• Oregon (HB 3375) Establishes the goal of developing commercial-scale floating offshore wind energy projects within federal waters off the Oregon coast by 2030.
• Virginia (SB 1284) Establishes a policy to expand offshore wind development in state and federal waters while taking into account possible environmental impacts on marine life.

• Oregon (HB 3114) Allocates funding for projects to monitor and reduce ocean acidification and to revitalize affected marine ecosystems. 
• Washington (SB 5126) Allocates funding under the state Climate Investment Account for projects that will help to remediate and adapt to the impacts of ocean acidification.

• Florida (SB 1954) Creates statewide programs to address sea-level rise and flooding across Florida. 
• Hawaii (HB 243) Requires the Office of Planning to identify current and future state-owned facilities that are vulnerable to sea-level rise and climate-induced flooding events and to assess options to make the facilities more resilient. 
• Maine (LD 1572) Requires agencies to review laws and rules and submit recommendations to incorporate sea-level rise into the administration of them.
• New Hampshire (SB 146) Adopts omnibus legislation that includes establishing a coastal program responsible for protecting and revitalizing natural coastal resources through various initiatives. The bill also establishes a fund for derelict fishing gear and coastal cleanup.
• Rhode Island (SB 35) Establishes the Ocean State Climate Adaptation and Resilience fund as a long-term source of grant funding to allow coastal cities and towns to implement climate resilience projects.
• Virginia (SB 1374) Establishes an intergovernmental task force to study and submit a report on how to use state land and marine resources for carbon sequestration.

• Arkansas (SB 632) Creates a grant program to fund the construction of electric vehicle charging facilities. 
• Colorado (SB 21 260) Provides incentives for, and requests an annual report on, progress on widespread transition to electric vehicles.
• Connecticut (HB 6444) Requires at least 50% of cars and light-duty trucks, and 30% of buses, purchased to be zero-emission vehicles by 2030. 
• District of Columbia (PR 24-0334) A resolution to make civil fines for moving and nonmoving infractions of spaces reserved for electric vehicles take effect immediately. 
• Hawaii 
  • (SB 1402) Requires state Department of Transportation to develop and implement plans to create highway and pathway networks for bicycles, pedestrians, and motor vehicles (with preference given to electric vehicles and mass public transit).
  • (SCR 89) Urges the University of Hawaii System and Department of Education to include training and courses related to electric vehicles in their respective programs.
• Illinois (SR 0296/HR 0293) Calls for the Governor to sign the Multi-State Medium and Heavy Duty Zero Emission Vehicle MOU calling for 30% of new truck and bus sales to be zero-emission by 2030 and 100% by 2050. 
• Maine (LD 347) Directs transmission and distribution utilities to submit a proposed incentive rate schedule to promote the installation of electric vehicle charging stations by November 2021. 
• New Jersey
  • (A 1653) Encourages development of zero-emission vehicle fueling and charging infrastructure in redevelopment projects
  • (S 3223) Establishes that electric vehicle charging infrastructure is inherently beneficial for the public good and general welfare, in addition to making the zoning and application approval for charging infrastructure sites easier.
• New York (A 4302/S 2758) Establishes the goal for all new passenger cars and trucks sold in New York State to be zero-emission by 2035.
• Rhode Island (HB 5031/SB 994) Requires the Department of Transportation to develop a plan by January 2022 for making electric vehicle charging infrastructure more accessible to the public. 
• Vermont 
  • (S 47) Amends state law to allow non-franchised zero-emission vehicle manufacturers to sell vehicles or provide related services in the state. 
• (H 433) Includes funding for low-carbon transportation like public transit and rail programs, park and rides, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and electric vehicle infrastructure.
• Virginia
  • (HB 1965) Adopts California Low and Zero Emissions Vehicle Standards.
  • (HB 1979) Creates an electric vehicle rebate program.
  • (HB 2118) Creates a fund to electrify school buses and diesel vehicles.
  • (HB 2282) Directs a report on policy pathways for transportation electrification.
• Washington 
  • (HB 1091) Establishes a Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
  • (HB 1287) Requires the development of a tool to forecast infrastructure and planning needs for transportation electrification.

• Maine 
  • (LD 155) Directs the state Board of Pesticides Control to ban certain neonicotinoid insecticides from being used on residential landscapes.
  • (LD 316) Prohibits the use of pesticides containing chlorpyrifos as an active ingredient starting in 2022
  • (LD 519) Prohibits the use of the herbicides glyphosate and dicamba within 75 feet of school grounds.
• Maryland (HB 208) Restricts the circumstances in which neonicotinoid insecticides can be sold.
• New York (SB 899) Prohibits the use of glyphosates on state property except for specific circumstances.
• Virginia (HB 2030) Directs the state to study ways to reduce the risk for pollinators from neonicotinoids.
• Washington (SB 5253) Provides funding to implement recommendations made by the Pollinator Task Force, including the adoption of pesticide use that will have minimal impacts on pollinator health

• California 
  • (AB 149) Authorizes the state Wildlife Conservation Board to name a non-vehicular wildlife crossing if at least 25% of the funding came from a state source.
  • (SB 790) Provides that wildlife connectivity actions can qualify for mitigation credit where mitigation is required under state, local or federal law.
• Colorado (SJR 21-021) Recommends a working group of government agencies and various private stakeholders to develop policy proposals that will protect wildlife corridors and encourages the collection of relevant habitat connectivity data. 
• Florida (SB 976) Formally recognizes the Florida Wildlife Corridor – an 18 million acre area of land vital to the state’s green infrastructure and wildlife habitat connectivity – and establishes various goals to conserve it, including the implementation of wildlife crossings
• Virginia (SB 1274) Directs various agencies to consider and incorporate wildlife corridors and recommendations from the state Wildlife Corridor Action Plan when developing any governmental strategic plan, map, or action.
• Wyoming (HB 66) Appropriates approximately $2 million for the funding of large wildlife crossing projects. 

• Illinois (HB 395) Amends the Ivory Ban Act to add 16 exotic species banned from wildlife trafficking. 
• Nevada (SB 344) Prohibits owners of a “dangerous wild animal,” as defined in the legislation, from allowing the animal to come into contact with members of the public. 
• New Hampshire (SB 146) Requires the Fish and Game Department to review and report to the legislature on species that carry zoonotic disease.
• New Jersey (S 347) Establishes the “New Jersey One Health Task Force” to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration between physicians, veterinarians and other scientific professionals/state agencies.
• Washington (SB 5092) Appropriates $1 million to establish a Center for Environmental Forensic Science at the University of Washington which will develop, and implement new methods to detect illegal wildlife imports as well as wildlife carrying disease.

• Colorado
  • (HB 21-1318)  Creates an Outdoor Equity Grant Program intended to increase access to the outdoors for underserved youth and their families.
  • (HB 21-1326) Appropriates $1 million to fund the newly created Outdoor Equity Grant Program and $17.5 million to the Parks and Outdoor Recreation Fund for staffing, maintenance, infrastructure and development of state parks.
• Georgia (SR 203) Establishes an Outdoor Learning Committee to look at issues and needs associated with outdoor learning. 
• Illinois (HR 0011) Maintains that every child should have the right and opportunity to take part in outdoor recreation.
• Indiana (HR 3)  Designates 2021 as “Indiana’s Year of the Trails” and encourages residents to take advantage of and maintain the state’s trail system.
• Maine (LD 1474) Creates pathways for public and private schools to responsibly conduct overnight camping trip.
• New Hampshire (SB 148) Adds environmental education skills, environmental science, and outdoor recreation to the education criteria for the state, while including areas for environmental education in new construction. The bill also establishes a New Hampshire Youth Outdoor Education and Conservation Council.
• New Mexico (SM 1) Convenes a task force to expand the use of outdoor classrooms for the state’s schools.
• Nevada 
  • (SB 43) Expands the membership of the state Advisory Board on Outdoor Recreation which advises on all matters concerning in-state outdoor recreation. 
  • (SB 52) Requires the Administrator of the Division of Outdoor Recreation to establish a program for awarding areas that minimize light pollution through different outdoor lighting techniques.
• Oregon 
  • (SB 289) Bars those convicted of bias crimes on state waters or publically owned outdoor recreation land from reentering those spaces for up to five years.
  • (HB 2171) Instructs the Office of Outdoor Recreation to study and make recommendations for legislation that will increase outdoor recreation opportunities, and the State Parks and Recreation Department to establish statewide standards for recreation areas to be made more accessible to Oregonians of all mobility levels.
• Rhode Island (HB 5259/SB 172) Creates a voluntary mechanism for towns and cities to convert land they own into public outdoor recreation spaces. 
• Virginia (SB 1290) Creates a data-driven geographical model to identify potential conservation areas that would provide benefits to Virginia residents. 

• New York (S 528) – Would amend the state constitution to guarantee each citizen the right to clean air and water and a healthful environment. 

• Hawaii (HB 1019/SB 1173) – Establishes the Ocean Stewardship Special Fund to finance marine conservation and restoration projects, helping to meet the state’s 30×30 management process. 
  • Status: Enacted
• Illinois (HB 3928) – Would establish a 23 member task force to identify ways of reaching an in-state 30×30 target.
  • Status: Sent to Governor 
• Nevada (AJR 3) – Expresses the state legislature’s support for a statewide 30×30 goal. 
  • Status: Passed Second Chamber

Source Reduction: Single-use Bans and Fees

• Colorado (HB 21-1162) Requires retailers to impose at least a ten-cent fee for carryout bags, requires all carryout bags to be made of recycled paper by 2022, and bans food retailers from using expanded polystyrene takeout containers.
• District of Columbia (B 23 0506) Among other things, the bill requires a uniform recycling labeling scheme, additional standards regarding the use of compostable food service ware such as requiring the use of reusable food service ware when providing food for consumption, establishes a reuse and donation program to reduce waste in landfills and incinerators, and makes grants available to support reductions in the use of disposable food service ware as well as for food waste programs and to encourage share tables at public and charter schools.
• Rhode Island (HB 5131/SB 155) Prohibits food service establishments from providing single-use plastic straws unless requested by a customer.
• Utah (HCR 9) Encourages various state agencies to work with local experts and stakeholders to explore the creation of a statewide anti-littering campaign.
• Virginia (HB 1902) Prohibits the use of styrofoam containers for all food vendors by 2025.

Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging

• Maine (LD 1541) Creates an EPR program for packaging materials.
• New York (R 504) Advances a proposal to implement EPR requirements for paper and packaging products.
• Oregon (SB 582) Creates a statewide EPR for packaging program and a list of accepted recyclable materials meant to standardize in-state recycling.

Bottle Bills

• California (AB 938) Recognizes that the loosening of requirements for beverage container redemption centers during COVID-19 has resulted in a 30% drop in reclaimed beverage containers and establishes that money collected for administrative penalties under the act be appropriated towards increasing the recycling of plastic beverage containers.
• Connecticut (SB 1037) Requires every beverage container (carbonated and noncarbonated) to have a clearly stated refund value that is no less than five cents, with some exceptions.

Recycled Content

• Connecticut (SB 928) Directs the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to consult with various waste management stakeholders and submit recommendations for developing recycled content requirements.
• Michigan (HB 4015) Makes it unlawful for a manufacturer to market a product in a way that misrepresents the amount or type of recycled content in a product, consistent with the Federal Trade Commission’s guides on environmental marketing claims (16 CFR part 260).
• North Dakota (HB 1015) Establishes that when practical, any state agency or institution should specify paper and paper products containing at least 25% recycled materials.
• Oregon (HB 2395) Requires all paper check-out bags to contain at least 40% post-consumer recycled fiber and/or nonwood renewable fiber.
• Utah (SJR 10) Reaffirms the goal of the Salt Lake City International Airport to source local materials containing recycled content.
• Virginia (HB 1986/SB 1204) Establishes a preference for contractors of George Mason University whose goods contain higher amounts of recycled content if all other categories are equal.
• Washington 
  • (SB 5022/HB 1118) Creates a minimum recycled content standard for plastic beverage containers, household cleaning and personal care bottles/jugs and trash bags. Prohibits the sale and distribution of styrofoam foodservice products, coolers, and packaging peanuts. It also makes plastic serviceware (e.g. straws, utensils) available upon request of customers.
  • (HB 1192) Requires recycled content paper carryout bags to be made with at least 40% recycled content and film plastic bags to be made with at least 20%.
  • (HB 1145) Allows for the use of nonwood renewable fiber in paper carryout bags containing recycled content.

• Colorado (HB21-1266) Defines “disproportionately impacted community” and requires the air quality control commission to promote outreach to and engage with disproportionately impacted communities by creating new ways to gather input from communities across the state, using multiple languages and multiple formats, and transparently sharing information about adverse effects resulting from its proposed actions. Creates the environmental justice action task force in the department of public health and environment (department). 
  • Status: Enacted
• Delaware (HCR 40) Creates the Justice Forty Oversight Committee to study and make findings and recommendations regarding environmental justice in the state.
  • Status: Enacted
• Oregon (H.B.2842) Establishes Healthy Homes Program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to entities to provide financial assistance to low-income households and landlords impacted by environmental injustices. 
  • Status: Enacted
• Rhode Island (SB 105) Would require the division of statewide planning to create a list of environmental justice areas. Once the list is adopted, the act would establish requirements that would have to be met by an applicant prior to division of statewide planning or the coastal resources management council issuing permits for an activity that would increase cumulative impacts on an environmental justice area.
  • Status: Passed first chamber
• Washington (SB 5141) Defines environmental justice and requires its application, uses a racial justice lens in agency strategic plans, goals, and metric setting, program implementation, enforcement, and reporting affecting the environment. Also ensures tribal sovereignty and rights in environmental justice. Ensures direct funding with environmental benefits toward investments in and determined by communities highly impacted by pollution or climate pollution. Encourages equitable community participation in planning, resource allocations, programs and enforcement.
  • Status: Enacted

• California (SB 158) Establishes a Board of Environmental Safety which will be responsible for setting fees and making permit decisions relating to the handling of hazardous waste. The five-member board must have at least one member with cumulative impact management and assessment experience. 
• New York (K 180/J 421) Establishes the week of April 11-17 as Black Maternal Health Week, recognizing the cumulative impacts that can degrade Black women’s health during pregnancy. 
• Washington
  • (SB 5126) Requires improved air quality in communities disproportionately overburdened by pollution, and to direct a minimum of 35% of investments to such communities.
  • (HB 1287) Requires the inclusion of cumulative impact analysis in the mapping needed to develop electric vehicle infrastructure.

• California
  • (AB 652) Bans the sale of products designed for use by infants and children under 12 years old which contain regulated PFAS chemicals. 
  • (AB 1200) Prohits the inclusion of regulated PFAS chemicals in disposable food packaging. 
• Connecticut (SB 837) Bans the use of PFAS chemicals in Class B firefighting foam and food packaging material.
• Vermont (S 20) Prohibits the sale and use of PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam, personal protective equipment, food packaging, ski wax, rugs, and carpets.

• Louisiana 
  • (HB 622) Creates a Rural Development Fund to fund projects that will enhance the socio-economic well-being of the state’s rural areas including but not limited to improving water quality, agriculture, the environment, and land use. Also creates a state Office of Rural Development that will serve as a single contact point for rural governments, service providers, state and federal agencies, and for individuals interested in rural policies and programs of the state; and shall strive to promote cooperative and integrated efforts among such agencies and programs that are designed to address rural needs. 
  • (SB 129) Creates a statewide water quality monitoring and accountability system in which community water systems are rated by the Louisiana Department of Health on a letter grade scale between A and F. Communities with D and F grades must allocate 100% of their water payment revenue towards the improvement of their water systems. 
  • (HCR 69) Commends the work being done by Louisiana’s agricultural conservation partnerships including efforts to improve water quality and environmental health. 
• Minnesota 
  • (HF 8) Requires the implementation of a Dairy Development andProfitability Enhancement program in which teams (made up of qualified organizations) will assist all dairy producers to enhance their financial success and long-term agricultural sustainability. Includes sustainable agriculture on-farm research and demonstration as a possible funding recipient for the state’s Agricultural Growth, Research, and Innovation program.
  • (SF 20) Allocates $1.35 million over two years for districts throughout the state to adopt soil health practices.
  • (HF 13) Allocates $4 million over two years for grants to farmers to adopt cover cropping and soil health practices in areas where it would directly benefit public water supplies. Up to $400,000 is allocated to the University of Minnesota’s Office for Soil Health for applied research and education on soil health.
• Tennessee (SB 1049) Mandates that a sponsor of an in-lieu fee project, under the federal Clean Water Act compensatory mitigation rule, must require legal enforcement to be taken if the sponsor fails to complete physical and biological improvements to the impacted aquatic resources by the third full growing season after the first payment.