January 4 - Economy, Politics Threaten Species Act Renewal |
January 4 - Endangered Species |
January 4 - ENVIRONMENT: New Udall Foundation Bill To Replace Vetoed One |
January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- New Business Solid Waste: Rewrite Of Garbage Laws |
January 18 - Legislative Schedule -- Old Business Energy: Broad-Based Policy Yet To Emerge |
January 25 - REGULATION: Outcry Greets Bush's Plan To Delay New Rules |
February 1 - SECTION NOTES: Johnston Offers Trimmed-Down Version of Energy Bill |
February 1 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Funding For Undersea Research |
February 8 - Arctic Wildlife Refuge Redux |
February 8 - ENERGY: Johnston Works To Clear Path For Revamped Energy Bill |
February 8 - ENVIRONMENT: Bush Endorses Rapid Ban On Production of CFCs |
February 8 - NUCLEAR WASTE: Dump Plan Halted By Court Ruling |
February 8 - SECTION NOTES: Interior Panel Approves Scenic Trail Study |
February 8 - SECTION NOTES: Ocean Dumping Law Targets Vessels |
February 8 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Will Not Challenge Udall Bill Pocket Veto |
February 8 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Panels Continue Working On Growth Packages |
February 22 - Changes in Utility Regulation |
February 22 - ENVIRONMENT: Drought Relief Bill Cleared by House |
February 22 - ENVIRONMENT: Panel Attacks Water Review |
February 22 - SECTION NOTES: Committee OKs Refuge at Rocky Mountain Arsenal |
February 22 - SECTION NOTES: House Interior Approves Scenic Trail Study |
February 22 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Urges Bush Attend U.N. Conference |
February 22 - Senate Passes Energy Bill, 94-4; Arctic Refuge Issue Dropped |
February 22 - What Got Left Out |
March 7 - An Agency in Transition |
March 7 - Congress Seeks to Rechannel Flow of Water in the West |
March 7 - Congressional Water Barons |
March 7 - Politically Attractive |
March 7 - PROVISIONS: Senate Energy Bill |
March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Bush's Participation Sought At U.N. Conference |
March 7 - SECTION NOTES: Forest Service Plans For Spotted Owl |
March 7 - SECTION NOTES: House Clears Scholarship Bill Honoring Udall |
March 7 - SECTION NOTES: House Passes Bill For Aviation Park |
March 14 - Energy Bill Provisions (chart) |
March 14 - ENERGY: Eastern Coal Mining Protected In House Panel's Measure |
March 14 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Panel's Water Bill Stalls Over Priorities |
March 14 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Passes Radon Bill |
March 14 - House Panel Nearly Unanimous In Approving Energy Bill |
March 21 - Deep Water |
March 21 - ENVIRONMENT: Mounting Pile of Waste Issues May Swamp RCRA Rewrite |
March 21 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Energy Keeps Spigot On For California Agribusiness |
March 28 - ENVIRONMENT: House Panel's Solid-Waste Measure Has Something for All Interests |
March 28 - RCRA Issues |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Interior Bill Targets Misuse Of Historic Sites Act |
March 28 - SECTION NOTES: Supreme Court Upholds Logging Provision |
April 4 - Bills Negotiate House Thicket, Encounter Partisan Divide |
April 4 - Energy Hot Spots |
April 4 - ENVIRONMENT: House Panel Moves To Limit Levels of Lead in Products |
April 4 - ENVIRONMENT: Miller Drafting Bill To End Northwest Forest Feud |
April 11 - ENVIRONMENT: Congress Calls on President To Fight Global Warming |
April 11 - Environmentalists Get a Boost From Committees' Markups |
April 11 - SECTION NOTES: Western Water Bill Passes in Senate |
April 18 - ENERGY: Unhappy Water Bill Sponsors May Seek Major Rewrite |
April 25 - Shrinking Nuclear Weapons Complex Sparks Explosive Debate Over Jobs |
April 25 - The Cost of Cleaning Up |
May 2 - Action on Energy Bill |
May 2 - ENVIRONMENT: Logging Decision Set for May 14 |
May 2 - Freedom Thwarts Funding Foes; But Bigger Budget War Ahead |
May 2 - INTERIOR: Smithsonian Faces Cuts, Scrutiny |
May 2 - Panels Race To Rework Comprehensive Bill |
May 2 - RCRA Bill Slogs Along, Faces Troubled Waters |
May 2 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Authorizes 22 Water Projects |
May 2 - SECTION NOTES: Watkins Threatens Layoffs At Carlsbad Waste Site |
May 9 - Ancient Timber Protections Emerge From First Round |
May 9 - ENERGY: House Leaders Urged To Forge Comprehensive Floor Bill |
May 16 - Chemical Firms Run to Congress For Relief From Local Laws |
May 16 - Critics Say Too Few Jobs, Owls Saved Under 'God Squad' Plan |
May 16 - ENERGY: Bill Almost Ready To Go to Floor |
May 16 - ENVIRONMENT: Pacific Yew Gains Prominence |
May 16 - Panel Fells Timber Sales Bill |
May 16 - Panel Nears Completion Of RCRA Markup |
May 16 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Lift Restrictions For Uncontaminated Sites |
May 16 - SECTION NOTES: Lawmakers React Coolly To Bush Summit Trip |
May 16 - SECTION NOTES: Marine Sanctuaries Bill Strengthens Local Input |
May 16 - SECTION NOTES: Reprieve Pushed for Cutback On New England Fishing |
May 23 - After Losing Pollution Battle, White House Seizes Victory |
May 23 - Clean Air Act Eased |
May 23 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Panel Trims RCRA Bill, Approves 'Landfill Law' |
May 23 - Key Conflicts |
May 23 - Nuclear Industry Wins Points In House Policy Rewrite |
May 30 - House Gives Energy Bill Big Win; Lengthy Conference Expected |
May 30 - INTERIOR: Bill Would Break Monopoly On Central Valley Water |
May 30 - Remaining Differences |
June 6 - ENVIRONMENT: Rulings on 'Imported' Waste Weigh on RCRA Rewrite |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Before Conference, Energy Bill Must Get Past Bentsen |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Independent Gas Station Owners Find Support |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Pacific Yew Protection OK'd by House Panel |
June 6 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes More Money For Water Technologies |
June 13 - ENERGY: Nevada Senators Vow To Block Energy Bill Unless Appeased |
June 13 - Hard-Won Montana Forest Pact Isn't Out of the Woods Yet |
June 13 - SECTION NOTES: Protection for Pacific Yew Advances Another Panel |
June 20 - APPROPRIATIONS: Panel OKs Money for Interior, Much of It Already Spent |
June 20 - Energy Taxes |
June 20 - ENERGY: Senate Committee Goes Along With House Tax Changes |
June 20 - House Votes Sweeping Reform Of Vast Water Project |
June 20 - INTERIOR: Agriculture Panel Approves Trimmed-Back Owl Bill |
June 20 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Bush: U.S. 'Second to None' In Environmental Effort |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Allows Western Ranchers To Ride Herd on Gold Diggers |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Coast Guard Bill Phases Out Boat Owner Tax |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Protection for Pacific Yew Heads to House Floor |
June 20 - SECTION NOTES: Senators Endorse Ban On Nuclear Testing |
June 20 - Surprise Vote Sounds Alarm For 1993 Spending Bills |
June 20 - Water Works |
June 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Another Round Set In Freedom Fight |
June 27 - Cheap Mining Rights To Be Cut Under Rewrite of 1872 Law |
June 27 - ENVIRONMENT: Focus Now on Interstate Trash As Clock Ticks for RCRA |
June 27 - ENVIRONMENT: From Bomb-Making To Eagle Saving |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Lawmakers Assail White House For Altering Clean Air Act |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes for Hike In Minivan Tariffs |
June 27 - SECTION NOTES: Two Sides Agree on Protection For Montana Forestland |
July 4 - ENVIRONMENT: Trimmed RCRA Reauthorization Disappoints Activists, GOP |
July 4 - Interior Spending (chart) |
July 4 - Policy Dispute Delays Bill On Interior Spending |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Bill's Moratorium Would Protect Yellowstone Park Resources |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Indian Affairs Panel Acts on Measures |
July 4 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Dolphin Protection, Colorado Wildlife Refuge |
July 11 - AGRICULTURE: Pesticide Decision Is Loss for EPA |
July 11 - Compromise Puts Restrictions On Long-Delayed Dump |
July 11 - ENVIRONMENT: Arsenal-to-Refuge Bill Passes House |
July 11 - SECTION NOTES: Bill To Open Oil Reserves Gets Initial Approval |
July 11 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Energy Bill Backers To Try Again in Late July |
July 11 - SECTION NOTES: Water Rights Still Unresolved In Colorado Wilderness Bill |
July 11 - SECTION NOTES: Yew Tree Measure Passed; Senate Bill Pending |
July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Ends Weeks of Delay, Approves Interior Spending |
July 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Panel Restores Collider, OKs Weaker Nuclear Test Ban |
July 25 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate OKs Bill To Let States Turn Away 'Imported' Trash |
July 25 - House Votes To Begin Testing New Mexico Nuclear Dump |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Would Create Panel To Meet Rio Objectives |
July 25 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Clears Bill Mandating Harvest of Pacific Yew |
August 1 - ENERGY: Senate Braces for Fights Over SSC, Nuclear Tests |
August 1 - FREEDOM FUNDING |
August 1 - House Vote Liberates Freedom From Termination Threats |
August 1 - Panel OKs Interior Spending Bill Packed With Special Projects |
August 8 - APPROPRIATIONS: Interior Bill Sees Usual Attempts To Change Mining, Timber Laws |
August 8 - Energy and Water Development (chart) |
August 8 - ENVIRONMENT: Fates of Timber, Desert Bills Tied After Wirth Maneuver |
August 8 - ENVIRONMENT: Water, Flood Work Gains Approval |
August 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Committee Approves Spotted Owl, Forest Help |
August 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Panel Approves Ban On Antarctic Drilling |
August 8 - The Law on Mining |
August 15 - Bush Says Free-Trade Pact Promises Growth, Jobs |
August 15 - Energy Conferees |
August 15 - ENVIRONMENT: House OKs Bills on Drift Nets, Polluted Federal Facilities |
August 15 - ENVIRONMENT: New Mexico Dump Still Entangled |
August 15 - INTERIOR: Three Wilderness Bills Seek Improved Management |
August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Includes Program On Marine Mammals |
August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Energy Panel Reauthorizes Radon Cleanup Program |
August 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Joins House in Funding NOAA Weather Research |
September 5 - SPECIAL REPORT: GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCE |
September 12 - Andrew Is Brutal Blow for Agency |
September 12 - Conference Tackles Huge Bill, But Thorniest Issues Remain |
September 12 - ENVIRONMENT and PUBLIC WORKS: If Moynihan Succeeds Burdick, Active Chairmanship Likely |
September 12 - ENVIRONMENT: Agriculture OKs Mining Bill |
September 12 - ENVIRONMENT: House Panel Raises Level Of Montana Wilderness |
September 12 - PROVISIONS: National Energy Strategy Provisions |
September 19 - APPROPRIATIONS: Conferees Save Super Collider But Can't Resolve Test Ban |
September 19 - California Water Reform Stirs Conference on Omnibus Bill |
September 19 - Energy-Water Development Spending (chart) |
September 19 - ENERGY: Conferees Attempt To Crack WIPP |
September 19 - ENERGY: Huge Conference Fails To Confront Policy Bill's Major Conflicts |
September 19 - House-Senate Disparities |
September 19 - New Wilderness Bill in House Heats Up Montana Race |
September 19 - SECTION NOTES: House Panels OK Markey's Radon-Fighting Bill |
September 19 - Water Works |
September 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Clears Energy Spending With Nuclear Test Ban Intact |
September 26 - Energy Bill History |
September 26 - ENVIRONMENT: $698 Million California Dam Is Cut From Water Projects |
September 26 - ENVIRONMENT: Chambers Vote To Clamp Down On Federal Polluters |
September 26 - ENVIRONMENT: Committee Rushes Wilderness Bill |
September 26 - Forest, Desert Protection Bills Near Extinction in Senate |
September 26 - Interior Bill's Negotiators Levy New Fee on Miners |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign ENVIRONMENT -- Protections, Costs Must Be Reconciled |
September 26 - SPECIAL REPORT: Beyond the Campaign Further Reading |
October 3 - APPROPRIATIONS: No Beefs as Pork Doubles; Hill Mutely Clears Bill |
October 3 - Conferees at Last Find Harmony On National Energy Strategy |
October 3 - Conferees Get the Lead Out |
October 3 - ENVIRONMENT: Montana Delegation Split Over Wilderness Bills |
October 3 - ENVIRONMENT: New Mexico Dump: No Deal Yet |
October 3 - INDIAN AFFAIRS: Training, Farmland Bills Approved |
October 3 - Interior Spending (chart) |
October 3 - Key Energy Conference Players |
October 3 - Modest Interior Spending Bill Clears With Little Fuss |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: 'Greenhouse Gas' Treaty OK'd by Senate Panel |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Converting Polluted Site Into Wildlife Refuge Clears |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Seeks Import Limits On Rare Wild Birds |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Seeks Import Limits On Rare Wild Birds |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Great Lakes Cleanup Bill Passes House |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Radon Bill; Little Time for Conference |
October 3 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Wildlife Measure Encourages Preservation |
October 10 - After Two-Year Odyssey, Energy Strategy Clears |
October 10 - COMMERCE: Senate Authorizes Landsat 7 Satellite |
October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Drift Net Ban, User Fee Repeal Sent to the White House |
October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Fix of 'Superfund' Clears Congress |
October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Mine Law Revision Victim of Time |
October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Clears Bill On Rare Birds |
October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate Clears Bill To Start Tests At New Mexico Nuclear Dump |
October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Senate OKs Treaty On Warming |
October 10 - ENVIRONMENT: Water Bill Heads to Bush's Desk Over Farm Interests' Protests |
October 10 - High Noon at Yucca Mountain |
October 10 - Periods in History |
October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Seeks To Limit Pipeline Damage |
October 10 - SECTION NOTES: Corps of Engineers Reauthorized |
October 10 - Seymour's Lonely Crusade |
October 10 - Water Works |
November 21 - PROVISIONS: Omnibus Western Water Law |
November 28 - Environmental Groups Look for Ways To Ensure a 'Green' Trade Agreement |
November 28 - PROVISIONS: National Energy Strategy Provisions |
November 28 - Warning Bells on NAFTA Sound for Clinton |
December 12 - Clinton Fills Cabinet Slots At Labor And HHS, Names EPA Administrator |
December 12 - RECESS NOTES: New Name for an Old Panel: Natural Resources |
December 19 - KEY HOUSE VOTES: 16. Western Water Bill |
December 19 - NOTES: Sen. Baucus To Inherit Environment Panel |