Summaries and Updates on Geoscience and Environmental Policy Issues
108th Congress (2003-2004)

Alphabetical Listing of Legislation by Topic

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• Congressional Action on Fiscal Year 2005 Appropriations
  • Overview of Fiscal Year 2005 Geoscience Appropriations
  • Special Update: Congress Passes Mega-Legislation, FY05 Budget is Complete (11-30-04)
  • Special Update: FY05 Geoscience Funding Action in House, Senate (10-8-04)
  • AAAS Current Status of FY 2005 Appropriations (up-to-date status of all bills)
  • FY2005 Agriculture Appropriations (11-29-04)
  • FY2005 Commerce (NOAA) Appropriations (11-29-04)
  • FY2005 Energy and Water (DOE) Appropriations (11-29-04)
  • FY2005 Interior (USGS, DOE Fossil Energy) Appropriations (11-29-04)
  • FY2005 Labor/HHS (Education) Appropriations (11-29-04)
  • FY2005 VA/HUD (NSF, NASA, EPA) Appropriations (11-29-04)
  • FY2005 Appropriations Hearing Summaries (3-11-04)
• President's Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Request
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2005 Budget Request: NASA, NOAA & EPA (3-15-03)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2005 Budget Request: Department of Energy (3-15-03)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2005 Budget Request: National Science Foundation (3-15-03)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2005 Budget Request: DOI and USGS (3-15-03)
  • Summary of President's Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Request (3-11-04)
• Congressional Action on Fiscal Year 2004 Appropriations
  • Overview of Fiscal Year 2004 Geoscience Appropriations
  • Special Update: House Passes Omnibus Spending Bill, Senate Will Wait Until January (12-11-03)
  • AAAS Current Status of FY 2004 Appropriations (up-to-date status of all bills)
  • FY2004 Agriculture Appropriations (12-10-03)
  • FY2004 Commerce (NOAA) Appropriations (12-10-03)
  • FY2004 Energy and Water (DOE) Appropriations (11-19-03)
  • FY2004 Interior (USGS, DOE Fossil Energy) Appropriations (11-11-03)
  • Action Alert: Support Geoscience Programs in Final FY 2004 Interior Spending Bill (10-17-03)
  • Special Update: Geoscience Cuts Largely Restored by Interior Spending Bills (7-17-03)
  • FY2004 Labor/HHS (Education) Appropriations (12-10-03)
  • Action Alert: Representatives Needed to Support Math and Science Partnerships (8-20-03)
  • FY2004 VA/HUD (NSF, NASA, EPA) Appropriations (12-10-03)
  • Action Alert: Congressional Signatures Needed for NSF Support Letter (5-15-03; revised 7-17-03)
  • FY2004 Appropriations Hearing Summaries (4-11-03)
• President's Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Request
  • Summary of President's Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Request (6-27-03)
  • Geotimes Political Scene: Geosciences Again Look to Congress to Restore Cuts (w/ Margaret Baker; 4/03)
  • Special Update: President's FY 2004 Budget Request: NASA, NOAA, Smithsonian & EPA (3-31-03)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2004 Budget Request: Department of Energy (2-25-03)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2004 Budget Request: National Science Foundation (2-13-03)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2004 Budget Request: U.S. Geological Survey (2-13-03)
• Congressional Action on Fiscal Year 2003 Appropriations
• Special Update: Fiscal Year 2003 Appropriations Process Finally Over! (3-3-03)
• Overview of Fiscal Year 2003 Geoscience Appropriations (1-17-03)
• Geotimes Political Scene: Following the Budget Process (3/96) (includes flow chart of budget process)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (4-13-04)
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR; 4-13-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Asbestos Policy (5-13-04)
  • Summary of Hearings on Asbestos Legislation (6-24-03)
• Congress Revisits the Asbestos Issue (reprinted from The Professional Geologist 11/00)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Clean Air Issues: New Source Review (7-7-04)
• Clean Air Issues: Clear Skies Initiative/Multi-pollutant Legislation (6-25-04)
  
• Summary of Hearings on Clean Air Issues (11-11-03)
  
• Mercury Policy (11-23-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Clean Water Issues (4-21-04)
• Clean Water Policy Hearing Summaries (7-24-03)
• Mercury Policy (8-20-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Climate Change Policy Overview (10-1-04)
• Climate Change Hearing Summaries (11-23-04)
• Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan (7-29-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Information from the 107th Congress

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• Geotimes Political Scene: Confronting Natural Disasters (3/01)
• Special Update: Natural Hazards Caucus Holds Event, Releases Discussion Paper (1-26-01)
• Natural Hazards Caucus Work Group Website
• AGI Action Alert: Natural Hazards Caucus Holds First Event, More Senators Needed (Posted: 6-23-00)
• AGI Action Alert: Senators Needed for Newly Created Natural Hazards Caucus (Posted: 3-7-00)
• Geotimes Political Scene: The Case for a Natural Hazards Caucus (8/98)
• Report of Public Private Partnership 2000 Forum on Real-Time Monitoring and Warning for Natural Hazards (6/98) (Initial proposal for forming caucus)
• Information from the 107th Congress

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• OMB Data Quality Standards (9-9-03)
• Public Access to Federally-funded Scientific Research (11-30-04)
• Information from the 107th Congress

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• National Earthquake Hazards Reductions Program (10-7-04)
  • Summary of Hearings on the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP; 6-25-04)
  • Geotimes Political Scene: Congress Re-Examines Earthquake Policy (6/03)
    
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Federal Science Education Policy (11-5-03)
• Action Alert: Representatives Needed to Support Math and Science Partnerships (8-20-03)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Energy Policy Overview (7-19-04)
  • Special Update: Final Energy Bill Passes House, Close to Senate Approval (11-20-03)
  • Special Web Update: Senate Approves Last Year's Energy Bill (8-4-03)
  • Energy Bill Comparison Chart (8-14-03)
  • Special Update: Senate Debates Energy Policy Act (7-28-03)
  • Energy Policy Hearing Summaries (7-23-04)
• Oil and Gas Activites Within the National Wildlife Refuge System (10-31-03)
• Natural Gas Policy (6-25-04)
• Natural Gas Hearings (10-13-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• New Leadership at the National Science Foundation (10-7-04)
• Science at the Environmental Protection Agency (5-26-04)
  • Summary of Hearings on Science at the Environmental Protection Agency (5-28-04)
• Nomination of Utah Governor Leavitt for EPA Administrator (10-28-03)
• NRC Evaluation of EPA STAR Program (6-13-03)
• NSF Report: Complex Envrionmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life, and Society in the 21st Century (3-10-03)
  
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Political Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution (8-24-04)
• Geotimes Political Scene: Opposition to Evolution Takes Many Forms (9/03)
• Geotimes Political Scene: Federal Law Misused in Ohio Education Debate (9/02)
• Other AGI Articles and Resources
• AGI and Member Society Position Statements on the Teaching of Evolution
• Evolution and the Fossil Record booklet published by AGI and the Paleontological Society (2001)
• Geotimes Special Issue on the Evolution Debate (12/00)
• Geotimes Political Scene: The Political Lessons of Kansas (10/99)
• Geotimes Feature: Kansas Rejects Evolution: A Response from the Geoscience Community (10/99)
• Web Sites of Interest
• AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
• AIBS Evolution Listserv Project
• GSA Critical Issues: Evolution and Creationism
• National Academy of Sciences: "Science and Creationism"
• National Center for Science Education
  • Voices for Evolution (statements from educational, scientific, civil liberties, and religious organizations supporting evolution education)
• Additional Information fronm the 107th Congress

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• Fossils and Public Lands (7-23-03)
  • Summary of Hearings on Fossils (6-27-03)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act (7-16-04)
• Information from the 107th Congress

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Methane Hydrate Research and Development Act (6-09-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

• Mining Policy (8-19-04)
  • Summary of Hearings on Mining (7-23-03)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Space Weather (10-31-03)
• Wind Hazards (10-7-04)
  Summary of Hearings on Wind Hazards (7-8-04)
• Natural Hazards Caucus Work Group
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• High-Level Nuclear Waste Legislation (8-24-04)
  
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Law of the Sea (5-28-04)
  • Summary of Hearings on Law of the Sea (5-28-04)
• Ocean Legislation (7-23-04)
  • Summary of Hearings on Ocean Policy (10-5-04)
    
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Outer Continental Shelf Policy (9-22-03)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Designation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (4-27-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Superfund and Brownfield Legislation (4-19-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Geotimes Political Scene: The Time Has Come for a USGS Coalition (10/02)
• U.S. Department of the Interior Draft Revised Strategic Plan for FY 2003-2008 (4-22-03)
• Department of the Interior Strategy and Performance Dialogue on Using Natural Resources (1-14-02)
• AGI Statement for USGS Listening Session (10-11-01)
• NRC Report Summary: Future Roles and Opportunities for the U.S. Geological Survey (2-18-01)
• Intersociety Workshop Report on the Integration of the National Biological Service Into the U.S. Geological Survey (June 1996)

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• High Plains Aquifer Legislation (11-5-03)
• Geotimes Political Scene: Water is for Fightin' (12/03)
• Water Resouces Legislation (8-1-03)
• Summary of Hearings on Water Resources (8-18-03)
  
• National Research Council Report Summary: Privatization of Water Services in the United States: An Assessment of Issues and Experience (7-23-03)
• USGS Report: Streamflow Information for the Next Century (Link to PDF File)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Wetlands Policy (5-13-04)
  
• Everglades Policy (7-16-03)
  
  • Summary of Hearings on Everglades Restoration (7-23-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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Last revised on November 30, 2004