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API encourages all states and localities to adopt the guidance recently published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to identify critical workers. Functioning critical infrastructure is imperative during the response to the COVID-19 emergency for both public health and safety as well as community well-being. Certain critical infrastructure industries have a special responsibility in these times to continue operations: https://www.cisa.gov/identifying-critical-infrastructure-during-covid-19.

Things Governors Should Consider for the Energy Sector: https://www.api.org/~/media/Files/EHS/Health_Safety/Governor-COVID-19-Energy-Guidance.pdf

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Alabama

Arizona

California:

Colorado:

  • COVID-19 Landing Page: https://covid19.colorado.gov
  • Stay at Home Order https://covid19.colorado.gov/category/stay-home
  • Essential Business Operations: 2. Critical Infrastructure, Including:
    • Utilities and electricity, including generation, transmission, distribution and fuel supply
    • Road and railways
    • Oil and gas extraction, production, refining, storage, transport and distribution

Connecticut

Delaware:

District of Columbia (DC):

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois:

  • COVID-19 Landing Page: https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/coronavirus/Pages/default.aspx
  • Stay at Home Order (among other things extends current Stay at Home order to 4/30): https://www2.illinois.gov/Documents/ExecOrders/2020/ExecutiveOrder-2020-18.pdf
  • Essential Service Guidance:
    “I work in an essential service. How will the police know I'm allowed to be outside my house? Law enforcement officials will not stop residents who are on their way to or from work or who are out for necessities like going to the pharmacy or getting groceries, or just taking a walk. People gathering in any size group may be asked to social distance or go home. Illinoisans should abstain from all nonessential activities. Adhering to the order will save lives and it is the responsibility of every Illinoisan to do their part.”     

Indiana:

Kansas

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Louisiana:

Maine:

Maryland:

Massachusetts

Michigan:

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

New Hampshire

New Jersey:

  • COVID-19 Landing Page: https://covid19.nj.gov/
  • NJ Stay at Home Order: https://nj.gov/infobank/eo/056murphy/pdf/EO-107.pdf
  • Guidance for businesses and workers:
    “Additionally, the order mandates that all businesses or non-profits, wherever practicable, must accommodate their workforce for telework or work-from-home arrangements. To the extent a business or non-profit has employees that cannot perform their functions via telework or work-from-home arrangements, the business or non-profit should make best efforts to reduce staff on site to the minimal number necessary to ensure that essential operations can continue. Examples of employees who need to be present at their work site in order to perform their job duties include, but are not limited to, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, other first responders, cashiers or store clerks, construction workers, utility workers, repair workers, warehouse workers, lab researchers, IT maintenance workers, janitorial and custodial staff, and certain administrative staff. (taken from https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/nj-information/general-public/governor-murphy-announces-statewide-stay-at-home-order-closure-of-all-non-essential-retail-businesses)

New Mexico

New York:

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio:

  • COVID-19 Landing Page: https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/
  • OH Stay at Home Order: https://www.api.org/~/media/Files/EHS/Health_Safety/covid-19/Directors-Stay-Safe-Ohio-Order
  • Guidance on Essential Infrastructure:
    “9. Essential Infrastructure. For purposes of this, individuals may leave their residence to provide any services or perform any work necessary to offer, provision, operate, maintain and repair Essential Infrastructure.
    Essential Infrastructure includes… operation and maintenance of utilities, including water, sewer, and gas; electrical (including power generation, distribution, and production of raw materials); distribution centers; oil and biofuel refining; roads, highways, railroads, and public transportation; ports; cybersecurity operations; flood control; solid waste and recycling collection and removal; and internet, video, and telecommunications systems (including the provision of essential global, national, and local infrastructure for computing services, business infrastructure, communications, and web-based services).
    Essential Infrastructure shall be construed broadly to avoid any impacts to essential infrastructure, broadly defined.” (Taken from OH Stay at Home order, linked above)

Oklahoma:

Oregon:

  • COVID-19 Landing Page: https://govstatus.egov.com/or-covid-19
  • Stay at home order: https://govsite-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/jkAULYKcSh6DoDF8wBM0_EO%2020-12.pdf
  • Essential Businesses Operations: Not following CISA guidance – OR is requiring that any business still in operation (which would include critical infrastructure) “establish, implement, and enforce social distancing policies, consistent with guidance from the Oregon Health Authority. Such policies must also address how the business or non-profit will maintain social distancing protocols for business-critical visitors.” (taken from order above)

Pennsylvania:

Rhode Island:

South Carolina

Texas:

Tennessee

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

For more comprehensive lists of all state actions, please visit the National Governors Association webpage for what steps states have taken to address coronavirus. https://www.nga.org/coronavirus/#actions

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