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January 14 - Coal Leasing Decision

January 14 - Lavelle Sentencing

January 21 - Summary of Major Issues Facing Congress in 1984: ENVIRONMENT

January 28 - Environment Interior's Clark: Getting to Know You

January 28 - Reagan Rejects Fixed Formula For Water Project Cost-Sharing

February 4 - 1985 BUDGET: But No Acid Rain Control: Selected Increases Proposed In Environmental Spending

February 11 - Reagan Position Unclear: House Passes Bill Boosting EPA Research Authorization

February 11 - Water Resources Research Gets $36 Million

February 18 - Coal Leasing Commission Report

February 25 - Offshore Leasing Bills Introduced

February 25 - Reagan Vetoes Water Research Authorization

March 10 - Clean Air Act Amendments

March 10 - Ocean Dumping

March 10 - Veto Override Attempt Of Water Bill

March 17 - Bars Fuel Switching by Car Owners: Clean Air Reauthorization With New Acid Rain Controls Approved by Senate Panel

March 17 - Special Report: Hazardous Wastes Superfund Contaminated by Partisan Politics

March 17 - Toxic Trash Creates Political Problems

March 24 - Congress Overrides Reagan Water Bill Veto

March 24 - Following Reagan's About-Face: House Passes Dam Repair Bill, Opposes Local Cost-Sharing

March 31 - Election-Year Momentum: State Wilderness Measures Beginning to Move Again After Long Winter Freeze

March 31 - Environmental Employment for Senior Citizens

April 7 - Arizona Wilderness

April 7 - Hydropower Development

April 7 - Outlook Uncertain: Superfund Reauthorization Hits Snag in House Energy

April 7 - Wetlands Protection

April 14 - Wilderness Bills: Tenn., Va., Pa. and Texas

April 21 - Program Overhaul Under Way: Congress Unlikely to Extend Current Ban on Coal Leasing

April 28 - But Senate Committees in Conflict: Water Project Bills Advance in Senate, House

April 28 - House Panel Badly Split: Clean Air Markup Session Snags on Acid Rain Provisions

April 28 - House Passes Arctic Research Bill

April 28 - Wilderness Bills: Texas, Tenn., Pa., Va.

May 5 - After Two Years of Hearings: Rewrite of Clean Water Act Approved by House Panel

May 5 - But Maneuvering Continues in House Panel: Acid Rain Provisions Cut From Clean Air Bill

May 5 - Coastal Zone Oil and Gas Leasing

May 5 - Hoover Dam Power Allocation Kept

May 5 - Measures Start Moving as Logjam Breaks: House, Senate Panel Leaders Strike Deal on Wilderness Bills

May 12 - Compromise Boosts Superfund Bill

May 12 - Environmentalists Decry Changes: House Panel Approves Clean Water Bill

May 12 - House Passes Texas, Virginia Wilderness Bills

May 12 - Marine Mammals Reauthorization

May 12 - Would Reverse Supreme Court Ruling: Senate Commerce Moves Bill On Offshore Leasing Actions

May 26 - Six Wilderness Bills Passed by Senate

May 26 - Toughens Existing Law, Expands Fund: House Subcommittee OKs Compromise 'Superfund' Bill

June 2 - PERSPECTIVE: The Environment Issue: Cleaner Than Thou

June 9 - Environmentalists, Administration Opposed: Rough Sailing Ahead for Clean Water Bill

June 9 - Five State Wilderness Bills Cleared for President Reagan

June 9 - House Passes Marine Mammals Bill

June 16 - House Democrats Not Satisfied: Federal Coal Leasing Program Still Under Cloud in Congress

June 23 - Beefing Up Current Law: Superfund Reauthorization Approved by House Energy

June 23 - House Passes N.M., Colo., Wash. Wilderness Bills

June 23 - New Oil Leasing Bans Included: House Panel Approves 1985 Interior Funding

June 23 - Senate Passes Three: Fiscal '85 Appropriations Bills Pick Up Speed as Recess Nears

June 30 - House Approves Revision of Clean Water Act

June 30 - House Working Through Water Bill

June 30 - Other Important Cases Settled: Court Upholds Reagan EPA On Clean Air Enforcement

June 30 - Refuses to Rescind Synfuels Money: House Appropriations OKs Interior Funding Measure

July 7 - Congress at Mid-Year 1984: Environment

July 7 - Marine Mammal Protection

July 7 - Stalled by Clash Among Committees: Massive Water Projects Bill Awaiting Action in Senate

July 21 - Democratic Platform Text 1984: Chapter I: Economic Growth, Prosperity, and Jobs

July 28 - House Expected to Follow Suit: Senate Rebukes Presidend On Burford Appointment

July 28 - Measure Ready for Conference: Senate Votes to Toughen Toxic Waste Law

July 28 - Rule for Interior Spending Bill Defeated: House Demands Floor Vote On Synfuels Funding Cuts

August 4 - Burford Resigns Under Fire, Again

August 4 - Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program: Bill to Strengthen Superfund Ready for House Floor Action

August 4 - Senate Committee Acts Also: House Votes Synfuels Cut, Passes Interior Funding Bill

August 11 - Administration Opposed: House Enlarges Superfund To Clean Up Toxic Wastes

August 18 - 98th Congress May Set Record: Wilderness Bills for Five States Passed by Senate Before Recess

August 18 - Congress Clears Bill for Dam Safety Repairs

August 25 - Text of 1984 Republican Party Platform: SECURITY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL

September 8 - Conservation of Striped Bass

September 8 - Drinking Water Bill OK'd by House Panel

September 8 - Probe by House Energy Subcommittee: White House to Give Panel Documents on 'Superfund'

September 15 - Coastal Revenue-Sharing Legislation

September 15 - Measures for Other States Advance: Congress Clears California Wilderness Bill

September 15 - Sets Deadlines for EPA Enforcement: Safe Drinking Water Measure Ready for House Floor Action

September 22 - Hazardous Waste Bills Advancing

September 22 - House Passes Wetlands Protection Measure

September 22 - Reagan Record Makes Environment Hot Topic

September 22 - Safe Drinking Water Bill Passed

September 22 - Test Sale From Strategic Petroleum Preserve

September 29 - Behind-Scenes Bargaining Likely: House-Senate Split Threatens Safe Drinking Water Measure

September 29 - But 'Superfund' Renewal in Doubt: Conferees Reach Agreement On One Hazardous-Waste Bill

September 29 - Relief for Northwest Logging Industry: Senate Passes Compromise Timber Bailout Bill

September 29 - Wetlands Loan Legislation Passed

October 6 - Administration Opposes Bill: Congress Clears Relief Bill for Timber Firms

October 6 - House Passes Ocean Dumping Bill

October 6 - House Passes Striped Bass Bill

October 6 - Safe Drinking Water Legislation

October 6 - Superfund Bill Doomed: RCRA Rewrite Strengthens Hazardous Waste Protections

October 6 - Wetlands Measure Cleared

October 6 - Wilderness Bills Cleared

October 13 - Colorado Salinity Bill Cleared

October 13 - Most Action Since 1964: Millions of Acres in 20 States Win Wilderness Protection

October 13 - Safe Drinking Water Bill Dies

October 13 - Striped Bass Bill Cleared

October 20 - Fourth Year in a Row: Interior Funding Provisions Renew Offshore Leasing Bans

October 20 - Summary of Major 1984 Congressional Action: ENVIRONMENT

October 27 - The East Lost, West Benefited: Big Water Project Bills Died But Smaller Ones Cleared

November 24 - Congress Expanding Scenic Rivers System

November 24 - Conservationists Win Prolonged Fight Over Protection for Tuolumne River

December 1 - Departure Could Affect Legislative Outlook: Ruckelshaus Leaving EPA; Concern Voiced in Congress

December 15 - EPA, Ruckelshaus Held in Contempt of Court

December 15 - Slow Move From Laboratory to Market

December 22 - Special Report: Congressional Agenda ENVIRONMENT