A number of new laws impacting energy production and environmental regulation came out of the recently concluded Louisiana legislative session.
Local firm Kean Miller breaks it down in a new roundup published last week highlighting measures dealing with carbon capture and sequestration, air quality monitoring, the sale of electric vehicles, federal revenue sharing for alternative energy projects, among others.
Many of new laws went into effect yesterday; others became effective upon signature by Gov. Jeff Landry, or another date prescribed by legislation.
Here are some of the laws passed as detailed in the law firm’s roundup:
SCR 30 urges and requests the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to study the implementation of real-time community air monitoring and notification systems. The resolution creates the Community Air Monitoring and Notification Task Force and requests that it study the costs and benefits of implementation of such systems in communities disproportionately impacted by the negative effects of air pollution.
HB 806, or Act No. 726, makes changes to the membership of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority board. It adds three at large members who are appointed by the governor and removes the secretaries of the Department of Transportation and Development and the Department of Economic Development, the commissioners of administration, agriculture and insurance, and the director of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
HB 810, or Act No. 727, governs the organization, duties and responsibility of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources and creates three new offices with the DENR: the Office of Enforcement, the Office of Energy and the Office of Land and Water.
Read the full roundup by Kean Miller of energy and environmental laws passed.
