EO 13514 Update. We may be hearing less about this EO but the requirements continue to unfold. By next month, federal agencies are required to complete n analysis of how climate change will affect agency operations. Agencies are not required to submit this analysis to CEQ but to use it for planning purposes and include the assessment in their third Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan due to CEQ and OMB this summer.

An interesting component is that the climate adaptation plans will be publicized for review and comment which will be particularly interesting for states and local community already working to assess climate adaptation changes. Agencies are not required to change plans based on the feedback, however. Both the first and second agency sustainability plans can be found at: http://sustainability.performance.gov/.

To read the entire CEIL Federal Sustainability and Green Government e-Newsletter #60, click here.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced that eight of the Department's national laboratories will participate in a pilot initiative to make it easier for private companies to utilize the laboratories' research capabilities.