January 6 - Stalemates of the Last Decade Haunt Agenda for 1990: Government and Commerce |
January 20 - A Quarter-Century of Activism Erected a Bulwark of Laws |
January 20 - AGRICULTURE: Farmers Reap a Crop of Scorn From Anti-Chemical Forces |
January 20 - Bush's Mr. Conservation |
January 20 - CALIFORNIA: In Cradle of Environmentalism, The Political Fight Is Hot |
January 20 - CAMPAIGNS: Voters' Concerns Are Turning The Political Agenda Green |
January 20 - Congress May Have To Intervene As Garbage Wars Intensify |
January 20 - Drilling Fight Continues |
January 20 - Earth Day? Still Spinning |
January 20 - Environmental Turf |
January 20 - For Gore, the Payoff May Be Political |
January 20 - GLOBAL WARMING: Tough Talk Is Heating Up; Specific Action Unlikely |
January 20 - Japanese Drive a Hard Bargain On Emissions Standards |
January 20 - LCV to Congress: We're Watching |
January 20 - LOBBYISTS: For Industry and Opponents, A Showdown Is in the Air |
January 20 - Loose Ends May Put Brakes on Bill |
January 20 - Major Environmental Laws |
January 20 - RCRA Bills (chart) |
January 20 - Resources Protected, Abusers Punished In Measures Most Likely to Succeed |
January 20 - Status, Problems and Cleanup Costs |
January 20 - The 'Environmentalists' (chart) |
January 20 - The 'White House Effect' Opens A Long-Locked Political Door |
January 20 - The Not So Silent Whitten |
January 20 - The Other Cleanups (chart) |
January 20 - TIMBER: In Battle Over Forest Land, Ecologists Gaining Ground |
January 20 - Using Environmental Goals In Name of Independence |
January 27 - Bush Backs Making the EPA A Cabinet-Level Agency |
January 27 - Cost Becomes the Overriding Issue |
January 27 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Odds Favor Victory for Stello In Senate Confirmation Vote |
January 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Bush and Congress Get Low Grades |
January 27 - ENVIRONMENT: With Big Push From Bush EPA Heads for Cabinet |
January 27 - Senate Takes Up Clean Air But Doesn't Get Very Far |
February 3 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate's Clean-Air Struggle Goes Behind Closed Doors |
February 3 - TRANSPORTATION/ENVIRONMENT: Hazardous-Materials Measure Begins Moving in House |
February 10 - Closed-Door Talks on Clean Air Anger Environmental Groups |
February 10 - House Makes No Headway |
February 10 - SECTION NOTES: Arizona Wilderness Bills Backed by House Interior |
February 10 - SECTION NOTES: EPA's Reilly Blasted About Contractors |
February 24 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate, White House Near Deal On Modified Clean-Air Bill |
March 3 - ENVIRONMENT: Arizona Wilderness Passed by House |
March 3 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Committee OKs EPA Bill |
March 3 - Key Provisions of Senate Deal |
March 3 - Recent Oil Spill Adds Force To Calls for Double Hulls |
March 3 - Senate-White House Deal Breaks Clean-Air Logjam |
March 10 - Clean-Air Deal Survives First Senate Assaults |
March 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Tongass Timber Compromise Brings Deceptive Unanimity |
March 10 - SECTION NOTES: Indoor Pollution Bill Gets House Panel OK |
March 17 - As Clean-Air Bill Took Off, So Did PAC Donations |
March 17 - Contributions to Panel Members (chart) |
March 17 - Environmentalists, Farmers Square Off on Farm Bill |
March 17 - Methodology |
March 17 - TRANSPORTATION/ENVIRONMENT: New Hazardous-Cargo Limits Clear House Energy Panel |
March 17 - Two Key Members (chart) |
March 17 - Wheels Begin Rolling Again On House Clean-Air Bill |
March 24 - Byrd vs. Byrd |
March 24 - ENVIRONMENT: Veto Threatened On EPA Bill |
March 24 - Ozone Non-Attainment (chart) |
March 24 - Senate-White House Deal Survives Another Test |
March 24 - The 'Super Tuesday' of Clean Air Nothing but a Quirky Footnote |
March 31 - Alternative Fuels |
March 31 - ENVIRONMENT/LAW: House Panel Seeks Criminal Penalties |
March 31 - ENVIRONMENT: House Flouts Veto Threat, Passes EPA Cabinet Bill |
March 31 - Showdown on Clean-Air Bill: Senate Says 'No' to Byrd |
March 31 - TRANSPORTATION/ENVIRONMENT: House Turns Sour on Truckers Who Haul Food and Garbage |
April 7 - Alternative Evaporates |
April 7 - Big Win for Majority Leader Marks His Rite of Passage |
April 7 - Clean Air: A Conference Outlook |
April 7 - Clean Air: War About Over In Both House and Senate |
April 7 - Clean-Air Bill: Dozens of Small Favors That Came Wrapped in a Big Package |
April 7 - ENVIRONMENT: New CAFE Rules Go to Senate |
April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Hydrogen Research Expansion Sought |
April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Interior Panel OKs Rare-Minerals Bill |
April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Scientific Interchange Program Approved |
April 7 - SECTION NOTES: Subcommittees Approve Coastal Waters Bills |
April 14 - Was Sen. Byrd's Plan Veto Bait? Sununu Signaled Yes and No |
April 21 - House Bill Would Help States Block Offshore Oil Drilling |
April 28 - Oil-Spill Liability Negotiators Find Another Sticking Point |
April 28 - Pie in the Sky: Big Science Is Ready for Blastoff |
April 28 - SECTION NOTES: Indoor Pollution Bill OK'd by Senate Panel |
May 5 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Global Change Office |
May 5 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Finally OKs Space Patent Bill |
May 5 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Indian Grant Measure |
May 12 - Acid Rain - Targeted Utilities (chart) |
May 12 - By Shifting Tactics on Clean Air, Dingell Guarded His Power |
May 12 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Nuclear Energy, Coal Interests Eye Global-Warming Measure |
May 12 - Hazardous Air Pollutants (chart) |
May 12 - Junior Members Help Out |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: About This Issue |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Introduction |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title I - Ambient Air Quality (Smog) |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title II - Motor Vehicles |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title III - Air Toxics |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title IV - Acid Rain |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title V - Permits |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title VI - Enforcement, Reauthorization |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Title VII - Ozone Protection |
May 12 - PROVISIONS Senate Clean Air Bill: Titles VIII-X - Miscellaneous |
May 12 - Services' Wish for More Land Hits Environmental Flak |
May 19 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Global-Warming Bill Moves to Senate |
May 19 - ENVIRONMENT: Panels Approve Research Bills |
May 19 - House Plans To Act Quickly On Clean Air Amendments |
May 19 - WHAT'S AHEAD: House Takes Its Turn With Clean Air Bill |
May 26 - Congress Fishing for Answers To Insidious Zebra Mussel |
May 26 - Easy House Vote on Clean Air Bodes Well for Bill's Future |
May 26 - House Deals |
May 26 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Targets Groundwater Cleanup |
June 2 - A Long, Hot Summer Looms For Clean Air Conferees |
June 9 - APPROPRIATIONS: Super Collider Gets Full Nod In Energy Spending Bill |
June 9 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Appoints Conferees For Clean Air Bill |
June 16 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy-Water Bill Goes to Floor |
June 16 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
June 16 - ENVIRONMENT: Panel Postpones RCRA Measure |
June 16 - FORESTRY: Senate Votes To Cut Tether On Logging in Tongass |
June 16 - SECTION NOTES: House Science Approves Quake, Aviation Bills |
June 23 - Not-So-True Believers (chart) |
June 23 - SECTION NOTES: Barrier-Island Legislation Gains in House Panel |
June 23 - Water Projects (chart) |
June 30 - Bush Hedges on Spotted Owl, Forces Congress To Choose |
June 30 - Coastal Barriers |
June 30 - ENERGY: Bush's Offshore Oil Decision Doesn't Satisfy Congress |
June 30 - ENVIRONMENT: Clean Air Conferees Finally Named |
June 30 - ENVIRONMENT: House Science OKs Indoor Air Bill |
June 30 - FOOD SAFETY: California's 'Big Green' Vote Puts Focus on Congress |
June 30 - House Bill Would Double Size Of Barrier Islands System |
June 30 - Oil-Spill Conferees Break Logjam |
June 30 - Threat of 'Superfund' Liability Makes Banks Wary of Loans |
July 7 - Mounting Cost Estimates |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Introduction |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title I - Ambient Air Quality (Smog) |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title II - Motor Vehicles |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title III - Air Toxics |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title IV - Permits |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title V - Acid Rain |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title VI - Enforcement |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Title VII - Stratospheric Ozone |
July 7 - PROVISIONS House Clean Air Bill: Titles VIII-X - Miscellaneous |
July 7 - Recruiting Defense Dollars For Environmental Duty |
July 14 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Oil-Spill Conferees Near End With Deal on Double Hulls |
July 14 - ENVIRONMENT: Clean Air Conference Opens With Two Senate Offers |
July 21 - A Slow Start |
July 21 - Animal-Rights Activists Find Themselves on Defensive |
July 21 - Animal-Rights Incidents |
July 21 - Cannons of the Conference Room Draw Clean Air Battle Lines |
July 21 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
July 21 - ENERGY: Panel Approves New Benefits For Renewable-Power Plants |
July 21 - ENVIRONMENT: Bill Would Protect The Antarctic |
July 21 - ENVIRONMENT: New Jersey Members Push For Coastal-Water Laws |
July 21 - ENVIRONMENT: Subcommittee Opposes Plan To Lessen Timber Losses |
July 21 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Protect Grand Canyon |
July 21 - Senate Appropriators Approve Energy-Water Funding Bill |
July 21 - Timber Sales (chart) |
July 28 - ENVIRONMENT: Conferees in Holding Pattern Over Clean Air Proposals |
July 28 - ENVIRONMENT: House Panel Moves RCRA Bill, But Probably Too Late |
July 28 - Long-Delayed Oil-Spill Measure Closer to Reaching President |
July 28 - Oil-Spill Compromise |
July 28 - PUBLIC WORKS: Water Projects Put Into Flow |
July 28 - Rare Spotted Owl Lands in Lap Of Interior Subcommittee |
July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Antarctica Protection Gets More Backing |
July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Florida Keys Sanctuary Passed by House |
July 28 - SECTION NOTES: Great Lakes Pollution Target of House Bill |
July 28 - TRADE: Bargain on Ethanol Imports Unlocks Trade Standoff |
August 4 - ALASKA: Oil Is Lifeblood of Economy, Not of Governor's Race |
August 4 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Oks Energy-Water Bill; Spending Exceeds Bush Plan |
August 4 - CLEAN AIR: Compromise on CFCs 1st Step In Slow-Moving Conference |
August 4 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Oil Pollution Cleanup Bill Is Set for Final Hurdle |
August 4 - ENERGY: Panel Pushes For New Laws |
August 4 - ENVIRONMENT: Antarctic Mining Ban Supported |
August 4 - ENVIRONMENT: Shore Bill Flows Past Panel, But Cost May Clog Path |
August 4 - House Passes Dam-Control Bill To Protect the Grand Canyon |
August 4 - House Science Committee OKs Coastal, Weather Programs |
August 4 - PUBLIC WORKS: Committee Leaves Water Bill Awash in Costly Add-Ons |
August 4 - TRANSPORTATION/ENVIRONMENT: House Panel Says No to Plan To Track Hazardous Wastes |
August 11 - Crude Oil |
August 11 - Crude Oil |
August 11 - Iraq Hits a Raw Nerve in U.S. But Policy Changes Unlikely |
August 11 - Oil-Spill Bill Cleared |
August 11 - SECTION NOTES: More EPA Investigators Approved by Senate |
August 18 - Government and Commerce: Major legislative actions of the 101st Congress |
September 8 - ANWR May Be Latest Hostage Of Middle East Oil Crisis |
September 15 - Conferees Reach Agreement On Urban Smog Provision |
September 15 - ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT: Bill Would Scrap NRC Waste Rule |
September 15 - ENVIRONMENT: Panels Struggle To Balance Timber, Owl Interests |
September 15 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Aims To Protect Antarctic Environment |
September 15 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Seeks To Inform Public About Beaches |
September 15 - The Deal on Smog |
September 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: Trash War Dumped Into D.C. Bill |
September 22 - Behind the Scenes |
September 22 - Energy Interests Try To Avoid Getting Burned by Congress |
September 22 - ENVIRONMENT: Backhauling Bill Passes Senate |
September 22 - PROVISIONS: House and Senate Farm Bills |
September 22 - SECTION NOTES: Bill on Barrier Islands Moves to House Floor |
September 29 - Bush's Modest Proposal |
September 29 - ENVIRONMENT: Clean Air Stuck in Conference Over Automobile Provisions |
September 29 - ENVIRONMENT: House Panel OKs Bill To Protect Environment in Antarctica |
September 29 - ENVIRONMENT: Indoor Air Quality Bill Passes Senate |
September 29 - ENVIRONMENT: Island Protection Passed by House |
September 29 - ENVIRONMENT: Opposition Applies the Brakes To Auto Fuel-Economy Bill |
September 29 - House to Environmentalists: No More |
September 29 - OFFSHORE OIL: House Approves Drilling Bill |
September 29 - PUBLIC WORKS: Bush Concerns Are Bottling Up Approval of Water Projects |
September 29 - SECTION NOTES: Conservation Measures Passed by House |
September 29 - SECTION NOTES: Tighter Rules Sought On Hazardous Waste |
September 29 - The Timber Bureaucracy |
September 29 - Timber, Spotted Owl Interests Find Middle Ground Elusive |
October 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Committee Expands Oil Drilling Bans |
October 6 - ENERGY: State Grant Bill Clears Senate |
October 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Clean Air Conferees To Talk But Differences Loom |
October 6 - ENVIRONMENT: House Passes Mussel Bill |
October 6 - ENVIRONMENT: RCRA Bill Would Allow States To Sue U.S. Over Cleanups |
October 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Panel OKs Delayed Bills |
October 6 - Interior Spending (chart) |
October 6 - SECTION NOTES: Legislation Urges Ban on Antarctic Mining |
October 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Garbage Provision Dies in D.C. Bill |
October 13 - Clean Air Conferees Agree On Motor Vehicles, Fuels |
October 13 - FORESTRY: Tongass Conferees At Standoff |
October 13 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Fishery Resources Bill |
October 13 - The Deal on Motor Vehicles |
October 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy, Water Bill Passed by House |
October 20 - Byrd Wields His Influence To Sway NEA Battle |
October 20 - Clean Air Conferees Agree On Industrial Emissions |
October 20 - Fees on the Range |
October 20 - Protecting Fort Bragg's Birds |
October 20 - SECTION NOTES: Antarctic Protection Bills OK'd in Both Chambers |
October 20 - The Deal on Air Toxics |
October 27 - A Decade's Acrimony Lifted In the Glow of Clean Air |
October 27 - Acid Rain, Job-Loss Benefits, Visibility |
October 27 - Aiding Displaced Workers |
October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Energy and Water Bill Is Cleared |
October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Packwood's 'God Squad' Plan Fails To Make Funding Bill |
October 27 - Clean Air Deadlines (chart) |
October 27 - ENERGY: Energy Bill Would Encourage Alternative Producers |
October 27 - ENERGY: Hydrogen Research Program Approved |
October 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Antarctica Bills Near Passage |
October 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Coastal Management Measure Gives States More Control |
October 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Hazardous Materials Agreement Struck |
October 27 - FORESTRY: Tongass Protection Bill Cleared by House |
October 27 - SECTION NOTES: Aid for Asbestos Removal Gains Final Approval |
October 27 - SECTION NOTES: Florida Keys Sanctuary Passed by House |
October 27 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Bill Expanding Earthquake Preparation |
November 3 - Energy and Water Appropriations (chart) |
November 3 - ENERGY and WATER: Spending Measure Cleared for Bush |
November 3 - Interior Spending (chart) |
November 3 - INTERIOR: Senate Clears Bans On Oil Drilling |
November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Government and Commerce |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Animal Abuse Legislation Fails To Pass House |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Cleared Bill Would Ensure 'Dolphin Safe' Tuna |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Cleared Legislation Would Fund Corps of Engineers Projects |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Approves Legislation Protecting Florida Keys |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Bill To Bury Exposed Pipelines |
November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Zebra Mussel Legislation Gets Through House |
November 3 - Superfund Stowaway |
November 3 - VA/HUD: Space Scores Win In Spending Test |
November 24 - Acid Rain - Targeted Utilities (chart) |
November 24 - Hazardous Air Pollutants (chart) |
November 24 - PROVISIONS: Clean Air Act Amendments (chart) |
December 8 - NEW CHAIRMAN PROFILE: Brown Good Fit for Science; Politics Still a Challenge |