January 2 - DOE Reactors Old, Unreliable: Congress Faces Major Decision On Nuclear-Weapons Reactors |
January 9 - Fiscal 1988 Energy/Water Funding (chart) |
January 9 - Funding Set at $15.6 Billion: Nuclear Activities Dominate Energy and Water Spending |
January 9 - Major Provisions of the Fiscal 1988 Reconciliation Bill |
January 30 - Senate Ready to Act on Price-Anderson Bill |
February 6 - Johnston Plan for Arctic Unveiled: Conservation Funds to Benefit If Refuge Opened to Drilling |
February 13 - Should Contractors Be Protected? Fight Over Nuclear Insurance To Focus on Accountability |
February 20 - Major Proposals in Reagan's Fiscal 1989 Budget |
February 20 - Move to Delay Defeated: Panel Approves Oil Drilling in Alaska Refuge |
February 20 - Senate Panel Takes a Swing at Pesticides Bill |
February 27 - Bill Would Allow Drilling: Oil Industry Wins First Round In Battle Over Arctic Refuge |
February 27 - Senate Panel Votes to Overhaul Nuclear Agency |
March 19 - New Studies Raise Concerns: Ozone Pact OK'd, but Some Say It's Not Enough |
March 19 - Senate Renews, Amends Nuclear-Insurance Law |
April 2 - No 'Christmas Tree': Senate Panel Approves Water-Projects Bill |
April 2 - Plan to Overhaul NRC Sent to Senate Floor |
April 2 - Projected Cost of Water-Projects Bill (chart) |
April 2 - Senate Votes to Bail Out Uranium Industry |
April 16 - Compromise Plan Offered: Group of Nine' Determined To Break Clean-Air Deadlock |
April 16 - Frustration Over Impasse Unites 'Group of Nine' |
April 16 - House Panel OKs Two Bills to Protect Oceans |
April 16 - Railroads Could Lease Mines: Coal-Slurry Pipeline Bill OK'd by Senate Panel |
April 23 - Ban on Oil Drilling Rejected: House Panel Begins Work on Arctic Refuge Bill |
April 23 - Pesticide Bill: One Step Forward, One Step Back? |
April 23 - Senate OKs Ban on Tin-Based Boat Paints |
April 30 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT NOTES Mulroney Urges Action on Acid Rain |
April 30 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT NOTES Senate Passes Water-Projects Bill |
April 30 - Panel Approves Oil Drilling in Arctic Refuge |
May 7 - Would Open Refuge to Oil Drilling: ANWR Bill Leaps First Hurdle, But That Was the Short One |
May 14 - House Passes Nuclear-Emergency Bill |
May 14 - No Construction Start for Supercollider: Fiscal '89 Energy, Water Bill Holds Off on New Projects |
May 14 - Punished for Talking With Dingell Panel: DOE Official Admits Failure To Shield 'Whistleblowers' |
May 21 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
May 21 - House Panel Approves Bill to Tighten PCB Limits |
May 21 - House Passes First Spending Bill for Fiscal 1989 |
May 21 - Prognosis Is Poor for Arctic Oil-Drilling Bill |
May 21 - Senate Passes Fluorescent-Light Bill |
May 21 - Some Say Government Being Cheated: Panel Approves Controversial Land Exchange |
June 11 - $9.3 Billion Spending Bill OK'd: Panel Adds Drilling Moratorium To Interior Appropriations Bill |
June 11 - Energy and Water Spending Bill OK'd: Senate Panel Agrees to Delay Key Decision on Supercollider |
June 11 - Railroads Could Lose Coal Monopoly: Interior Panel Approves Coal-Slurry Measure |
June 18 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
June 18 - Energy/Environment Notes: Flourescent Lights |
June 18 - Energy/Environment Notes: House Moves to Tighten Rules on PCB Disposal |
June 18 - House Panel OKs Use of Mineral-Leasing Measure |
June 18 - Interior Spending Bill Approved: House Panel Rebuffs Challenge To Offshore-Oil-Leasing Ban |
June 18 - Panel OKs Bills on Waste-Reduction, Asbestos |
June 18 - Park Service Reorganization |
June 18 - Spending Bill Becomes Vehicle for Power Struggle |
June 25 - Conferees Agree on Energy and Water Funding |
June 25 - Dispute Over 'Scoring': Oil-Leasing Controversy Dogs Interior Bill |
June 25 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT NOTES New Jersey Wins a Round in Sludge War |
June 25 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT NOTES: Great Smoky National Park Bill Stalled |
June 25 - Last-Minute Effort Blocks Pesticide Amendment |
July 2 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
July 2 - Energy/Environment Notes: Congress Gives School Districts More Time to Clean Up Asbestos |
July 2 - Fiscal 1989 Interior Appropriations (chart) |
July 2 - Interior Spending Measure Passed: House Meets Deadline on Appropriations Bills |
July 2 - Spending Bill for Energy and Water Approved |
July 9 - Interior's Motives Questioned: Alaskan Land-Exchange Plan Criticized as 'Unfair to Public' |
July 9 - Senate Clears Energy/Water Funding Bill |
July 16 - Energy/Environment Notes: Bills on Indoor Air Pollution, Manassas Battlefield Advance |
July 16 - New Clean-Air Compromise Put Forth |
July 16 - Prognosis Uncertain: House, Senate Move to Revive Pesticide Bills |
July 16 - Senate Shifts Oil Drilling Speedup to Alaska |
July 30 - Endangered-Species Bill Passed: Senate Votes for Shrimpers Over Sea Turtles |
July 30 - House Gives Nod to Land Exchange |
July 30 - House Panel Approves Bill to Lessen Radon Threat |
July 30 - House Passes Fish and Wildlife Bills |
July 30 - Interior Panel OKs Bills Reorganizing Two Offices |
July 30 - Park Service Reorganization Sent to Senate |
July 30 - Veto Predicted: House Votes to Limit Logging in Alaska Forest |
August 6 - Energy/Enviroment Notes: Waste-Reduction Bill |
August 6 - Energy/Environment Notes: House Panel Approves Sewage-Dumping Ban |
August 6 - Energy/Environment Notes: Land Exchanges |
August 6 - Energy/Environment Notes: Lead in Drinking Water |
August 6 - Energy/Environment Notes: Merchant Marine Markups |
August 6 - Political Impasse Threatens Future of FERC |
August 6 - Reagan Expected to Sign Compromise: Congress Clears Nuclear-Insurance Measure |
August 13 - Conferees Agree on Interior Spending Bill |
August 13 - Decision Up to EPA: Congress Fails to Take Action On Aug. 31 Clean-Air Deadline |
August 13 - ENVIRONMENTAL NOTES: African Elephant Conservation |
August 13 - ENVIRONMENTAL NOTES: Turtle Excluder Devices |
August 13 - House Passes Critical-Minerals Bill |
August 13 - Senate Votes to Revamp Nuclear Commission |
August 27 - Reagan Signs Second of 13 Appropriations Bills (chart) |
August 27 - Taxes Again Top May List: Lobbyists Anticipate Action To Clean Up Air in Buildings |
September 3 - 100th Congress Will Finish on a Partisan Note |
September 10 - Bill Sent to Reagan: House, Senate Split Differences On Interior Appropriations Bill |
September 10 - Defining Federal Role May Be Key Decision |
September 10 - Little Breathing Space For Smog and Acid Rain |
September 10 - Senate Ratifies Nuclear-Accident Agreements |
September 17 - Bare-Bones Pesticide Bill Sent To House Floor |
September 17 - Energy/Environment Notes: Controlling Medical Waste |
September 17 - Energy/Environment Notes: Protecting Manassas Park |
September 17 - Energy/Environment Notes: Pushing Alternative Fuels |
September 17 - Energy/Environment Notes: Secrecy Surrounds Negotiations Aimed at Clean-Air Compromise |
September 17 - Energy/Environment Notes: Tightening PCB Rules |
September 17 - Fiscal 1989 Interior Appropriations (chart) |
September 24 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT NOTES: Alternative-Fuels Bill Cleared |
September 24 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT NOTES: FERC Nominations Approved |
September 24 - House Passes Scaled-Back Pesticide-Control Bill |
September 24 - Mitchell Negotiating With UMW: Progress Reported in Efforts To Get Clean-Air Compromise |
October 1 - Compromise Reached on Ocean Dumping |
October 1 - Energy/Environment Notes: Endangered Species Measure Sent to President |
October 1 - Energy/Environment Notes: Marine Mammals |
October 1 - Energy/Environment Notes: NRC Investigations |
October 1 - House Panel Seeks Inquiry Into Employee's Firing |
October 1 - House Passes Water-Projects Bill |
October 1 - Plan Attacked on Several Fronts: Filibuster Threat Dims Hope For Clean-Air Compromise |
October 1 - Reagan Signs Spending Bill for Interior |
October 1 - Senate Clears Bill to Speed Up Pesticide Testing |
October 8 - Action Taken on Several Bills: Congress Moves to Control Ocean Pollution |
October 8 - All Sides Blamed for Death of Clean-Air Bill |
October 8 - Bill Requires Tracking of Medical Wastes |
October 8 - Democrats Take Three of Five Seats: FERC Commissioners Approved In 'Package Deal' in Senate |
October 8 - House Approves Indian Water-Rights Bill |
October 8 - House OKs Bill to Deal With Radon |
October 15 - Congress Clears Bill to Track Medical Waste |
October 15 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT NOTES: Archaeological Treasures |
October 15 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT NOTES: South Dakota Drinking Water |
October 15 - From Oregon to Alabama: Congress Moves to Protect More Wild Rivers |
October 15 - Senate Clears Bill to Deal With Radon |
October 22 - Congress Clears Arizona-Idaho Legislative Package |
October 22 - Congress Clears New Curbs on Tuna Fishermen |
October 22 - Energy/Environment Notes: Animas-La Plata Project |
October 22 - Energy/Environment Notes: Congress Clears Bills Protecting Drinking Water, Marine Life |
October 22 - Energy/Environment Notes: Montana Wilderness |
October 22 - Energy/Environment Notes: Plastic Six-Pack Holders |
October 22 - Energy/Environment Notes: Sludge Dumping |
October 22 - Energy/Environment Notes: Water Projects |
October 29 - Amendments Leave CEQ Bill Stranded |
October 29 - Energy/Environment Notes: Cave-Protection Bill Clears |
October 29 - Energy/Environment Notes: Indian Water-Rights Bill Clears, Adding California Canal Work |
October 29 - Energy/Environment Notes: Polluted-Land Bill OK'd |
October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Energy/Environment |
October 29 - Manassas Battlefield Provision Wins OK |
October 29 - Provisions of Water-Projects Authorization Bill |
October 29 - Washington Wilderness Bill Clears |
November 5 - Lobbyists Seek Hill Action To Modify Utilities Law |
December 24 - Legislative Outlook: Energy/Environment |
December 24 - Nuclear-Weapons Woes Await Congress |