The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will consider legislation to boost recycling and continue a popular program for revitalizing contaminated areas.
The panel will mark up a bill nicknamed the “STEWARD Act,” S. 351, and legislation to reauthorize EPA’s Brownfields Program, S. 347.
The “STEWARD Act,” sponsored by Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), combines two bipartisan recycling and composting bills that Capito and former Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) have been attempting to pass for years. Both bills cleared the Senate by unanimous consent last March but failed to become law.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who replaced Carper as the top Democrat on the committee, and Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) joined as co-sponsors for the new Congress.