February 11 - House Panel Hears Costs of Nuclear Cleanup |
February 25 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Watkins: New Management, Tighter Controls at DOE |
February 25 - NUCLEAR WASTE: Spratt Discloses DOE Budget Plan |
March 4 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Confirms Watkins As Energy Secretary |
March 11 - Alaska Oil-Drilling Measure May Turn Up Dry Again |
March 18 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Arctic-Drilling Plan Clears Committee |
March 18 - Watkins Asks Panel for Time To 'Get Our Act Together' |
March 25 - Sen. Mikulski Wants It All |
March 25 - Tight Budgets, Unlikely Alliances |
April 1 - Acid-Rain Controls Advance On Both Sides of Aisle |
April 8 - ENERGY: House Panel OKs Gas Decontrol |
April 8 - Spill May Halt Drilling Bill, Help Liability Efforts |
April 15 - Congress Still Moving Quickly To Decontrol Gas Prices |
April 15 - SECTION NOTES: Tongass Forest Bill Is Marked Up |
April 22 - Clean-Air Package, Part I: Toxic Air Pollutants |
April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Gas-Price Decontrol Passed by House |
April 22 - SECTION NOTES: Global-Change Research Voted by Panel |
April 29 - Coal-Slurry Bill Is Marked Up, But Opposition Still Strong |
April 29 - MARINE/FISHERIES: Conservation Bills Voted by House |
April 29 - Utah's Nuclear Fusion Scheme May Create Fission on Hill |
May 6 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Congress Seeks Ways to Raise Fuel-Efficiency Standards |
May 6 - ENERGY: Nuclear Regulators Blasted by Panel |
May 6 - Markup of Land-Purchase Bill Prompts Walkout by GOP |
May 6 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes Authorization For Merchant Marine |
May 13 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: House Panel Limits Land 'Giveaway' |
May 13 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: OMB's Tampering of Testimony Hurts Bush's Credibility |
May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Administration Proposes Oil-Spill Cleanup Fund |
May 13 - Shrinking U.S. Markets (chart) |
May 13 - Smog Bill Toughens Standards For Car, Truck Emissions |
May 13 - Washington Policy on R and D Proving Divisive Issue |
May 20 - Deadlock Likely to Continue |
May 20 - ENVIRONMENT: Senators Introduce Bill to Ban Alar |
May 27 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT Smog Bill Hearing Highlights Split |
May 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Timber Measure Meets a Hitch |
May 27 - Panel's Oil-Spill Liability Bill To Pre-empt State Law |
May 27 - Whitten Amendment to HR2072 |
June 3 - SECTION NOTES: Tongass Forest Measure Is Marked Up |
June 10 - New Air-Toxics Proposal Wins Environmentalists' Backing |
June 10 - SECTION NOTES: Water Research Bill Passed by House |
June 17 - Air Pollution (charts) |
June 17 - Bush Sets Clean-Air Debate In Motion With New Plan |
June 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Two 1990 Bills Move Ahead |
June 24 - ENVIRONMENT: House Panel Eases Tongass Limits |
June 24 - ENVIRONMENT: Industry Officials Seek Change In Air-Toxics Legislation |
June 24 - INTERIOR: Bill Would Elevate Park Service Head |
June 24 - Panel Eases Stance on Limiting State Control Over Oil Spills |
June 24 - SECTION NOTES: Federal Compliance Sought For Hazardous-Waste Laws |
July 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: First FY 1990 Bill OK'd by House |
July 1 - APPROPRIATIONS: Offshore Drilling Bans Survive Close Votes in Committee |
July 1 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
July 1 - House Charts Science Policy With Supercollider Vote |
July 1 - Interior Appropriations (chart) |
July 1 - Once Again, Texans Deliver |
July 1 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Ban On Oil Drilling |
July 1 - The Supercollider |
July 1 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Floor Fights Loom On Drilling, Logging |
July 8 - Water Pork Makes Comeback In FY '90 Spending Bill |
July 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel OKs Spending Increases For Housing, Environment |
July 15 - House Chooses Tough Curbs On Logging in Tongass |
July 15 - House Rejects Attack on NEA, Passes FY '90 Interior Bill |
July 15 - SECTION NOTES: Flood-Insurance Program Renewed by Senate Panel |
July 15 - SECTION NOTES: Oil-Decontrol Bill Sent to Bush |
July 22 - Critics Disappointed by Details Of Bush Clean-Air Measure |
July 22 - ENVIRONMENT: Bill Extends RCRA To Federal Sites |
July 22 - ENVIRONMENT: Democrats Attack Parks Politics |
July 22 - ENVIRONMENT: House Revises BLM Mandate |
July 22 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Panel OK's CFC Fees, But Others Want Credit |
July 22 - House OKs $65.1 Billion Bill For HUD, VA, Agencies |
July 22 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Adds $25 Million To Supercollider |
July 29 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
July 29 - Interior Appropriations (chart) |
July 29 - Offshore Oil Moratoriums Survive on Senate Floor |
July 29 - Oil-Spill Liability Measures Move in House, Senate |
July 29 - SECTION NOTES: Combating Shortage Of Research Mice |
July 29 - TRANSPORTATION: Senate's OK Clears Airport-Noise Bill |
August 5 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Passes an Oil-Spill Bill Tougher Than Leader Sought |
August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Nuclear Clean-up Plan Unveiled by Watkins |
August 12 - Energy |
August 12 - Environment |
August 12 - SECTION NOTES: Mouse-Breeding Facility Gets Senate Funding Nod |
September 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Approve Funds for SSC |
September 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Hill Moves Ahead On Three Bills |
September 9 - Fireworks Await Interior Bill Talks |
September 9 - Small Owl Incites Big Battle Over Environment, Jobs |
September 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: First Spending Bill Cleared by Senate |
September 16 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
September 16 - HR2916: HUD, VA, Agencies (chart) |
September 16 - Lines Drawn in Opening Round Over Cleaning Nation's Air |
September 16 - Rocket Industry Seeks Help In Global Launch War |
September 16 - SPACE: War on Drugs Kills ASRM Pay Scheme |
September 23 - Bush Scores Early Victory In Clean Air Markup (chart) |
September 23 - Patents in Space |
September 23 - SECTION NOTES: Waterfowl Increase Eyed In Wetlands Bill |
September 30 - Conferees Compromise on NEA After Helms Loses Vote |
September 30 - SECTION NOTES: Wetlands Protection Bill Sent to House Floor |
September 30 - Waxman, Dingell Talk Truce On Auto Emissions Rules |
October 7 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Agreement Gets House OK |
October 7 - Energy Panel Seals Pact On Vehicle Pollution |
October 7 - ENVIRONMENT: New Oil-Spill Liability Package Remains Stalled in House |
October 7 - Environmental Record Puts Nominee Under Attack |
October 7 - Interior Appropriations (chart) |
October 7 - The Yin and Yang of Clean Air Debate Finally Reach a Political Nirvana |
October 14 - Bush's Plan for Cleaner Fuels Scaled Back by House Panel |
October 14 - SECTION NOTES: Waste-Reduction Bill Wins Panel OK |
October 14 - SECTION NOTES: Wetlands Protection Passed by House |
October 14 - Supercomputers Crunch Bits (And $$$) by the Billions |
October 21 - ENVIRONMENT: Tougher Air-Toxics Standards Get Quick Nod From Panel |
October 28 - DISASTERS: Senate OKs Boost In Quake Research |
October 28 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Panel One-Ups Bush On Clean Air Controls |
October 28 - Seafood Inspection Measures Begin Moving in Congress |
November 4 - ENVIRONMENT: Bush's Tough Acid Rain Bill Puts Midwest on the Spot |
November 4 - ENVIRONMENT: Oil-Spill Liability Compromise Finally Reaches House Floor |
November 4 - The Politics of Acid Rain |
November 11 - Clean-Air Bill Loses Steam In Rush to Adjournment |
November 11 - ENERGY: Cuomo to Congress: Stay Out Of Deal to Close Shoreham |
November 11 - Tough Oil-Spill Measure Rides Atop Environmental Wave |
November 18 - AGRICULTURE: Environmentalists Score Win As Cason Nomination Falls |
November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Coordinate Global-Change Research |
November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Research-Mouse Laboratory Cleared by Congress |
November 18 - Senate Stage Is Finally Set For Clean-Air Showdown |
November 18 - TRANSPORTATION: House Panels Rush to Pass New Waste-Hauling Rules |
November 25 - ENVIRONMENT: Bill Would Create Nevada Wilderness |
November 25 - ENVIRONMENT: Wetlands Bill Sent to Bush |
December 2 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Energy/Environment |