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Title: JM-314: Victories and defeat
Summary: Editorial cartoon in two panels: U.S. wins battles in Pacific, loses them in Atlantic.

Title: Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect, and climate: A primer
Date: 1984
Summary: The report summarizes the present state of knowledge with respect to research and assessment of carbon dioxide effects, articulating the areas of emerging consensus and continuing disagreement, and focusing attention on the crucial uncertainties. Key scientific, technical, and social issues of contemporary carbon dioxide/climate debate are identified, and the implications and options for dealing with the possible effects of carbon dioxide-induced climatic change are outlined.

Title: An analysis of U.S. energy program funding for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 in the era of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
Date: 1986

Title: Alternative energy taxes: Industry, regional and national impacts
Date: 1986
Summary: A range of energy tax alternatives are discussed in this report. These tax alternatives cover the recent proposals for taxing energy to raise Treasury revenue and to achieve other energy policy goals. Each is evaluated in the context of various measures of economic impacts, varying from regional to macroeconomic, from ease of administration to income distribution.

Title: Summary of oversight hearings on implementation of the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980
Date: 1984

Title: Picking up the tab: The cost of acid rain legislation in indiana
Date: 1984

Title: The impact of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ...: on selected federal research and development agencies and programs
Date: 1986
Summary: This report examines the impact of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, on the FY86 budget of selected research and development (R&D) programs. The analysis of the report focuses on the likely scope of reprogramming, and its potential impact on each program or agency in general. The qualitative program analysis also tried to determine what research areas were likely to suffer most under Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and if the different R&D agencies planned to cut the number of research grans or the size of each grant and how either action might affect their programs.

Title: Europ, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described: with the habits of most Kingdoms now in use. , Europe, and the chief cities contained therein, with the habits of most kingdoms now in use
Date: 1626

Title: Environmental protection issues of the 99th Congress
Date: 1985

Title: Airport relocation: Some economic effects, implications for the washington, d.c., metropolitan area
Date: 1984
Summary: The transfer of air carrier service between airports in the same community is generally thought to have adverse economic effects on the airport losing service. This report briefly examines experience with airport relocation in four communities. Further, this experience is related to prospects for air carrier activity relocation in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area.*

Title: Nonpoint source provisions of the Clean Water Act amendments of 1987
Date: 1987
Summary: The Clean Water Act Amendments of 1987 (P.L. 100-4) make control of nonpoint sources of water pollution a national policy. New section 319 creates a nonpoint source management program. While the primary responsibility for developing and implementing controls on nonpoint sources is vested with the States, the Environmental Protection Agency must approve the State programs and is authorized to provide technical and financial support. After three years, EPA is required to report to Congress on the program and its success.

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