Natural Resources, Environment, and Transportation Workgroup
The Natural Resources, Environment, and Transportation
Workgroup is responsible for issues relating to:
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Agriculture
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Natural Resources
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Energy Conservation/Efficiency/Renewable Energy
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Planning/Growth Management
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Environment
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Transportation
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In addition to staffing and monitoring various task forces
and commissions relating to the workgroup’s policy areas, the workgroup
conducts research and produces policy reports and fact sheets in subject areas
that have become a topic of interest to the General Assembly. Recent examples address
financing environmental programs, Chesapeake Bay restoration, Smart Growth,
congestion, and public-private partnerships, among others. These reports and
fact sheets can be found below (see Reports/Fact Sheets).
The workgroup also maintains data relating to the State's
progress toward its various environmental, natural resources, and
transportation goals (see Data Dashboards).
As part of the Legislative Handbook Series published before
the start of each term, the workgroup prepared overviews of the State's
environmental, natural resources, agriculture, energy, and transportation
agencies and their funding sources.