The environment and natural resources bill is moving forward, after months of Senate Republicans throwing down spike strips to stop clean car rule creation by the Walz administration.
Briana Bierschbach and Jennifer Bjorhus report in 'Clean cars' rule and environmental funding move forward:
After a prolonged standoff that threatened to shut down Minnesota's parks before a holiday weekend, Senate Republicans have dropped demands that the Walz administration stop the new clean cars emissions standards.
The deal announced Monday still needs to pass a divided House and Senate, but it removes a major roadblock in negotiations on a key budget bill. The environment bill funds the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Department of Natural Resources and the Minnesota Zoo, among other areas. It also approves grant spending by the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, whose funding from lottery proceeds is constitutionally dedicated.
Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka told reporters Monday that he doesn't like the clean cars rule, which requires automakers to provide more electric vehicles for sale in Minnesota.
"But we recognize that we have to close this deal up," said Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake. "The environment bill will be moving forward."
"We did get clarity that [the standards] will not be implemented until January of 2024 which means this becomes an election issue," Gazelka said.
The near-final bill is expected to be presented to the Ways and Means Committee Tuesday morning. . ..
Read the rest of the article at the Star Tribune.
Here's the Minnesota House Information Services YouTube of the hearing:
Here are the meeting documents from the Ways and Means Committee page:
Bills:
- HF5 (Hansen) - Environmental fund prior appropriation modified, cost-share program funding provided, and money appropriated.
Attachments:
- Agenda 6.22.21 - 6/21/2021
- HF5 A21-0232 author's amendment - 6/21/2021
- HF5 A1 author's amendment - 6/21/2021
- HF5 (ENR) Fiscal Spreadsheet - 6/21/2021
- HF5 (ENR) Change Item Tracking - 6/21/2021
- HF5 House Research Summary (w/A21-0232) - 6/21/2021
- ENR Trust Fund FY2021 Spreadsheet - 6/21/2021
- ENR Trust Fund FY2022 Spreadsheet - 6/21/2021
Here's the House Research Summary, a good outline to what's in the bill:
HF5 House Research Summary (w/A21-0232) uploaded by Sally Jo Sorensen on Scribd:
Some of the big winners? Minnesota's turtles and the gar. Excellent.
Photo: A long-nosed gar. Photo by CC BY-SA 3.0 at via Wikipedia.
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