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Diverse Groups Come Together to Kick Off Senate Farm Bill Floor Debate with Urgent Call for Real Reform
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Laura Rusu of Oxfam America, +1-202-496-3620, +1-202-459- 3739, lrusu@oxfamamerica.org; or Sean Crowley of Environmental Defense, +1-202-572-3331, +1-202-550-6524, scrowley@environmentaldefense.org WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the eve of the 2007 Farm Bill floor debate by the U.S. Senate, fiscal conservatives, environmentalists, faith groups, health professionals, international development experts,...
Tags: Benefits, ENVIRONMENTAL, FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, Manufacturing, payment, SOFTWARE, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-11-05
U.S. POLICY AND THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
Although the U.S. has not yet accepted the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,1 the Convention has attracted support from people in the U.S. with very different perspectives on U.S. foreign policy. Since adoption of the 1994 Part XI Implementation Agreement, which must be interpreted and applied...
Tags: Comm, Consent, Continental, ENVIRONMENTAL, Prof, SALES, U.S., U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-05-30
Clean Coal Supporters Applaud Illinois Senate on Legislation; House Action Now Needed for Taylorville Energy Center
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-07-27
Congressional Descent: The Demise of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Law
ABSTRACT In recent years, the formal environmental lawmaking dimension of Congress has become effectively moribund. Earlier Congresses were, by contrast, celebrated for enacting sweeping, demanding environmental laws and for passing significant and increasingly detailed amendments in response to subsequent developments in executive branch agencies, federal courts, and the states. Now,...
Tags: agency, Environmental, MARKETING, pollution, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, upshot
Research articles 2006-03-01
Environmental Group Praises Introduction of Farm Bill Reform Legislation on Eve on Senate Agriculture Committee Markup
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-10-23
56 Environmental, Conservation Groups Nix Alito for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The Senate Judiciary Committee today recommended Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on a party line vote, 10 to 8. Alito’s nomination will now go to the full Senate. In a letter to the U.S. Senate released Monday, the nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice and...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental, Judge, Litigation, nomination, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2006-01-24
CEOs May Mislead Shareholders By Not Disclosing Risks to Earnings From Global Warming Regulations, Says FEAOX at Senate Hearing
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, global warming, shareholder, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-06-28
Secret Senate Amnesty Provision to Roll Back Key Environmental Protections
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-05-16
The Senate should give immediate advice and consent to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: why the critics are wrong.(POSITION PAPERS)
I. INTRODUCTION As national security professionals who have spent much of our lives working on oceans and security issues, we believe that Senate advice and consent to ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention is strongly in the national interest of the United...
Tags: agreement, Consent, environmental, FINANCE, U.S., U.S. Senate
Research articles 2005-09-22
Italia Federici Pleads Guilty to Evading Taxes and Obstructing Senate Investigation Into Abramoff Corruption Scandal
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, tax, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-06-08
Governor Rendell Applauds Senate Confirmation of DEP, DCNR Secretaries
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: data execution prevention, Environmental, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-05-08
Public Can't Stop Oil Spills, Water Contamination if Prop 64 Passes, Say Environmental Activists
News Advisory: Environmental activists will testify tomorrow that the "unfair business competition law" -- targeted by Prop. 64 -- allowed the community of Avila Beach to clean up an underground oil spill, and forced vended water companies to clean contaminants out of water sold in low-income and minority communities, in...
Tags: activist, ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTHCARE, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2004-09-27
Environmental Working Group Applauds Senate Passage of Landmark Legislation Banning Asbestos; Author of Bill Used EWG's Asbestos Research to Make the Case.
Byline: Environmental Working Group Byline: Environmental Working Group
Tags: Environmental, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-10-12
Energy Sec. Abraham and Energy Officials to Testify Before Congressional Committees
-- Jessie Roberson, assistant secretary for Environmental Management, and Michael W. Owen, assistant secretary for Legacy Management, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004. They will discuss the FY 2005 budget request for the Office of Environmental Management...
Tags: Environmental, secretary, SOFTWARE, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2004-02-23
Senate Energy Committee Adopts Key Measures Supported by Senators Dorgan and Craig and the Energy Security Leadership Council
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, security, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-05-03
Creating a Landmark: The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
Introduction The date is Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1991. The scene is Tarrant County, Texas, on a State Highway 360 construction site not far from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The weather is cold and rainy -- and no one can do anything about the mud throughout the site. Powerful...
Tags: administration, America, Bush, ENVIRONMENTAL, Federation, FHWA, Kane, president, Robert, secretary, Sen., Speaker, tax, Transport, Transportation, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2001-11-01
Western Rangelands Reform: An Analysis Of The 1996 Senate Vote On Federal Grazing Fees
JON P. NELSON [*] Grazing of livestock on public lands is a controversial environmental issue, despite a long history of federal regulation of this activity. Environmentalists and economists have argued that grazing fees charged by the Bureau of Land Management subsidize livestock operators and that higher fees would help...
Tags: analysis, Bureau, C, coefficient, Conservation, Environmental, FINANCE, Government, income, lawyer, legislator, M., Nelson, Regression, senator, Tenure, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2001-07-01
The Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why.(Review) (book review)
The Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why. By Elizabeth Drew. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Island Press, 1999. Pp. 278. $21.95. October 14, 1999, offered the unprecedented spectacle of the Republican members of the United States Senate debating whether or not they...
Tags: Cir, Environmental, finance, legislator, pollution, senator, Stat, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Washington
Research articles 2000-11-01
Office of the Press Secretary (Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) - President names George T. Frampton, Jr. as Chairman of the Council On Environmental Quality.
M2 PRESSWIRE-7 August 2000-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary (Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts) - President names George T. Frampton, Jr. as Chairman of the Council On Environmental Quality C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04082000 The President today recess appointed...
Tags: Council, Environmental, Mr., president, Quality, secretary, SOFTWARE, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2000-08-07
States Proposed Regulations and Legislation.
ALASKA Tributyltin--AK S 266 Leman repeals the exemptions from state law relating to the sale and use of tributyltin based marine antifouling paints. On March 28, this bill was sent from the House Committee on Resources to the House Committee on Rules. ...
Tags: Benefits, certification, environment, ENVIRONMENTAL, Governor, HEALTHCARE, Quality, SOFTWARE, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2000-06-01