RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Establishes a program to control and minimize litter in the State to the maximum extent possible; recovers and recycles waste material; and increases public awareness of the need for waste reduction, recycling, and litter control.

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Requires the public utilities commission to develop and adopt a standard power purchase contract for the purchase of electricity by public utilities from nonfossil fuel producers.

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Requires the public utilities commission to develop and adopt a standard power purchase contract for the purchase of electricity by public utilities from nonfossil fuel producers.

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Requires the public utilities commission to establish a renewable energy credits trading program to ensure compliance with the State's renewable portfolio standards. Requires DBEDT to review the feasibility of the State becoming a member of the Chicago climate exchange.

RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.

Amends the net energy metering law to by removing the 10 kilowatt cap on the size of the system, and by incrementally increasing, by .5% every 2 years to 2020, the percentage of the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators of the electric utility system's peak demand.

RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.

Increases allowed capacity of energy generating facilities that may be used by an eligible customer-generator engaged in net energy metering; increases the allowed total energy generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators; requires net energy metering to be billed and compensated quarterly after the first year of a customer's operation.

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Increases the conveyance tax to provide a stable funding mechanism for the natural area reserves system and to address the problems of invasive species.

RELATING TO NEW FUEL EFFICIENT VEHICLES.

Exempts new fuel efficient vehicles from the county vehicular tax and the general excise tax.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO INCREASE STATE FUNDING TO ERADICATE THE MICONIA CALVESCENS PLANT.

Appropriates funds to increase efforts to eradicate the Miconia Calvescens plant.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO INCREASE STATE FUNDING TO ERADICATE THE MICONIA CALVESCENS PLANT.

Appropriates funds to increase efforts to eradicate the Miconia Calvescens plant.

RELATING TO ENDANGERED SPECIES.

Expands the definition of landowners eligible for coverage under safe harbor agreements and habitat conservation plans to all state and county lands and private lease lands.

RELATING TO NOISE.

Prohibits leaf blower manufacturers from causing to be sold in the State leaf blowers whose sound levels have not been tested and lowered under standards of the American National Standards Institute. Appropriates funds for the director of health to establish a buyback program for noncompliant models of leaf blowers. Expands unreasonable noise category of the crime of disorderly conduct to include noise from motorized apparatus.