Summaries and Updates on Geoscience and Environmental Policy Issues
109th Congress (2005-2006)

Alphabetical Listing of Legislation by Topic

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• Congressional Action on Fiscal Year 2007 Appropriations
  • Overview of Fiscal Year 2007 Geoscience Appropriations
  • FY2007 Department of Agriculture Appropriations (3-9-06)
  • FY2007 Department of Commerce Appropriations (7-5-06)
  • FY2007 Department of Education Appropriations (2-17-06)
  • FY2007 Department of Energy Appropriations (6-21-06)
  • FY2007 Department of the Interior Appropriations (6-13-06)
  • FY2007 Environmental Protection Agency Appropriations (6-22-06)
  • FY2007 NASA Appropriations (7-5-06)
  • FY2007 National Science Foundation Appropriations (7-5-06)
  • FY2007 Appropriations Hearing Summaries (4-14-06)
  • Special Update: Mid-Term Elections, Budget Update and Outlook for the New Congress (11-21-06)
  • Special Update: New Leadership and New Committee Chairs for the 110th Congress (11-21-06)
    
  
  
  • President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Request
    • Special Update: The President's FY 2007 Budget Request: NASA (2-28-06)
    • Special Update: The President's FY 2007 Budget Request: NOAA (2-28-06)
    • Special Update: The President's FY 2007 Budget Request: Department of Energy (2-28-06)
    • Special Update: The President's FY 2007 Budget Request: National Science Foundation (2-13-06)
    • Special Update: The President's FY 2007 Budget Request: USGS (2-13-06)


• Congressional Action on Fiscal Year 2006 Appropriations
  
• Overview of Fiscal Year 2006 Geoscience Appropriations
• AAAS Current Status of FY 2006 Appropriations (up-to-date status of all bills)
  
• FY2006 Department of Agriculture Appropriations (11-11-05)
• FY2006 Department of Commerce Appropriations (11-9-05)
• FY2006 Department of Education Appropriations (7-18-05)
• FY2006 Department of Energy Appropriations (11-9-05)
• FY2006 Department of Interior Appropriations (8-15-05)
• FY2006 Environmental Protection Agency Appropriations (8-15-05)
• FY2006 NASA Appropriations (11-11-05)
• FY2006 National Science Foundation Appropriations (11-8-05)
  
• FY2006 Appropriations Hearing Summaries (5-16-05)
  
  
• President's Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Request
  • Summary of President's Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Request (3-21-05)
    
    
• 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 (3-15-04)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2005 Budget Request: Department of Energy (3-15-04)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2005 Budget Request: National Science Foundation (3-15-04)
  • Special Update: The President's FY 2005 Budget Request: DOI and USGS (3-15-04)
  • Summary of President's Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Request (3-11-04)

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• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR; 8-22-06)
• Oil and Gas Activites Within the National Wildlife Refuge System (1-25-05)
• National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (2-2-05)

• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Asbestos Policy (6-2-05)
  • Hearings on Asbestos Policy (2-2-05)
• Congress Revisits the Asbestos Issue (reprinted from The Professional Geologist 11/00)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Clean Air Issues: Clear Skies Initiative/Multi-Pollutant Regulation (5-10-06)
  
  • Hearings on Clean Air Issues (7-24-06)
• Clean Air Issues: New Source Review (1-25-05)
• Mercury Policy (9-14-05)
• Geotimes Political Scene: Clear Skies Clouded in Legislative Discontent (5/05)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Clean Water Issues (5-4-06)
  • Hearings on Clean Water Issues (8-11-06)
• Mercury Policy (9-14-05)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Climate Change Policy (12-4-06)
  • Hearings on Climate Change (12-8-06)
• Global Earth Observation System of Systems (5-24-05)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Information from the 107th Congress

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• Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance Website
  • Geotimes Political Scene: Beating Natural Hazards to the Punch (12/04)
  • Geotimes Political Scene: Congress Re-Examines Earthquake Policy (6/03)
  • Geotimes Political Scene: Confronting Natural Disasters (3/01)
  • Geotimes Political Scene: The Case for a Natural Hazards Caucus (8/98)
• Information from the 108th Congress

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• Public Access to Federally-Funded Scientific Research (10-12-06)
• Geotimes Political Scene Column: Open Access, Open Debate (11/04)
• OMB Data Quality Standards (1-25-05)
• Action Alert: Oppose Limitations on NOAA (4-25-05)
• Information from the 108th Congress

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• Drought Hazards (10-12-06)
  • Hearings on Drought Hazards (5-3-06)

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• National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (5-10-06)
  • Hearings on Earthquake Hazards (5-10-06)
• Geotimes Political Scene Column: Mr. Smith in Washington Fighting for Science (9/04)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Global Earth Observations (5-24-05)
  • Hearings on Global Earth Observations (10-6-06)

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Energy Policy (10-10-06)
  • Hearings on Energy Policy (11-22-06)
  • Senate Committee Conferences on Coal and Natural Gas (3-15-05)
  • Comparison of House and Senate Energy Bills (8-3-05)
• Nuclear Energy Policy (5-25-06)
  • Hearings on Nuclear Energy (9-22-06)
• Action Alert: Support Increased Funding for DOE's Office of Fossil Energy (5-05-05)
• Confirmation of Samuel Bodman, Secretary of Energy (2-2-05)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Science at the Environmental Protection Agency (1-25-05)
  
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Political Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution (12-4-06)
• Geotimes Political Scene: Creationism: Back in Kansas Again (4/05)
• 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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• Federal Science Education Policy Overview (6-2-06)
  • Hearings on Innovation and U.S. Competitiveness (5-31-06)
• Geotimes Political Scene: Science Funding Left Behind (6-04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Flood Hazards (7-7-06)
  • Hearings on Flood Hazards (4-14-06)

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• Fossils On Public Lands (10-17-05)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Reauthorization Act (11-22-05)
• Geotimes Comment: Geologic Mapping for the Future (10/04)
• Information from the 108th Congress

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• Hearings on Homeland Security Emergency Response and Federal Science Research (9-15-06)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Hurricane Katrina, Response and Recovery (10-12-06)
  • Hearings on Hurricane Katrina (2-8-06)

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• Innovation and U.S. Competitiveness (12-4-06)
  • Hearings on Innovation and U.S. Competitiveness (7-28-06)

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• Methane Hydrate Research and Development Act (1-25-05)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Mining Policy (10-10-06)
  • Hearings on Mining Policy (6-20-06)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• NASA Programs (10-4-05)
  • Hearings on NASA Programs (10-4-06)

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• Natural Gas Policy (5-26-06)
  • Hearings on Natural Gas Issues (7-7-06)

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• Congressional Hazards Caucus Homepage
• Geotimes Political Scene Column: Beating Natural Hazards to the Punch (12/04)
• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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• Nuclear Energy Policy (9-25-06)
  • Hearings on Nuclear Energy Policy (9-25-06)
    
• High-Level Nuclear Waste Legislation (4-27-06)
  • Hearings on Nuclear Waste Management (8-7-06)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Law of the Sea (2-2-05)
• Ocean Policy (10-12-06)
  • Ocean Hearings (8-7-06)
    
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Outer Continental Shelf Policy (10-10-06)
• Hearings on Outer Continental Shelf Policy (6-28-06)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Public Land Policy (12-15-06)
• Hearings on Public Land Hearings (11-30-06)
• 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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• Hearings on Innovation and U.S. Competitiveness (5-11-06)
• 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 (4-7-05)
  • Hearings on Brownfields (6-21-06)
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Tsunami Response (7-10-06)
  • Hearings on Tsunami Response and Warning Systems (2-7-05)

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• Geotimes Political Scene: The Time Has Come for a USGS Coalition (10/02)
• Department of the Interior Strategy and Performance Dialogue on Using Natural Resources (1-14-02)
• 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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• Hearings on Volcanic Hazards (3-20-06)

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• Water Resources (10-12-06)
  • Hearings on Water Resources (12-20-05)
    
• High Plains Aquifer Legislation (1-25-05)
• Geotimes Political Scene: Water is for Fightin' (12/03)
  
• 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 108th Congress

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• Great Lakes and Other Watersheds (4-27-06)
  • Hearings on Great Lakes and Other Watersheds (4-27-06)
    

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• Wetlands and Coastal Resources Policy (4-28-06)
  • Hearings on Wetlands and Coastal Resources (7-5-06)
    
• Everglades Policy (3-24-05)
  
• Additional Information from the 108th Congress

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• Wind Hazards (1-25-05)
  • Summary of Hearings on Wind Hazards (6-12-06)

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• Additional Information from the 107th Congress

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Last revised on December 15, 2006