THERE’S NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC & IT ISN’T GOOD

January 2, 2015 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, Animal welfare, Arctic, biscayne national park, bullets, conservation programs, conservation stewardship, cromnibus, crp, EPA, forests, fsa, ghg, greenhouse, greenland, Hen law, house energy, illegal fishing, keystone pipeline, keystone xl, lobbyist, mcconnell, melting ice, national park, nmfs, NRCS, ocean plastic, park rangers, polar bear, power plants, republicans, survey climate health, toxic, trash, tsca, us park service, usda | Leave a comment

Welcome to Federal Policy Week. You can subscribe by entering your email address under the “Follow” label at the upper left section of the page. Thank you! IN THIS ISSUE: Bad Arctic Report. NOAA released the latest reportcard on the Arctic and the news isn’t good. Some lowlights include: Decreasing sea ice has lead to […]

House Ranking Members – The Leading Democrats on House Committees

November 22, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, animal fighting, animal shelters, arctic wilderness, big cats and public safety, breathe act, captive primate, captive promate safety, clean water, colin peterson, commercial whaling, Comorant, conservation, conyers, conyers house judiciary, egg products inpection act, EPA, great ape, green house gases, horse slaughter, horse soring, house of representatives, House Rules Committee, house science committee, House Transportation, house ways & means, hrose transportation, humane cosmetics, humane scorecard, ivory protection, marine turtle healthy climate, national forest, national rescue day, natural resources committee, PAST Act, pelosi, pesticide atrazine, pet safety, polar bear, pollinators act, prairies act, puppy protection, red rock, refuge from cruel trapping, Representative DeFazio, representative grijalva, Representative Johnson, Representative levin, representative lowey, representative slaughter, SAFE Act, service corps, soring, van hollen, wolf | Leave a comment

Leader Pelosi Introduces Ranking Members (C-SPAN) The House Democrats elected and re-elected Ranking Members of the House Committees. Most of the names of the Committee Ranking Members were released by Democratic Leader Pelosi. Some information (with links, including to the Members, their Committees, and highlighted legislation), which gives you an idea of where these leaders […]

THE NEXT CONGRESS – Committee Leadership on Key Committees

November 13, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, agriculture committee, appropriations committee, committees, conaway, congress, don young, energy and natural resources, environment, epw, hill, house, inhofe, lucas, murkowski, natural resources committee, price, republicans, rob bishop, roberts, ryan, senate, sessions | Leave a comment

As discussed in the last Federal Policy Week posting, House and Senate Committee memberships and Chairs will change on many Congressional committees. I will keep you updated on changes as they happen to both the authorizing committees and the Appropriations Committee in the both the House and Senate. For now, The Hill provides a preview […]

THE ELECTION – CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE, AND ESA

November 11, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, animal welfare act, antibiotics, aphis, bees, climate change, congress, dogs, drinking water supplies, environment, EPA, flooding, honeybees, keystone pipeline, keystone xl, national park service, NRCS, pesticides, public lands, puppies, republican, secretary jewell, species, usda | 1 Comment

Welcome to Federal Policy Week, a blog that covers federal policy developments in conservation, natural resources, wildlife, and animal welfare. To subscribe for Federal Policy Week enter your email address under the “Follow” label at the upper left section of the page. You will receive a verification email to confirm your subscription. Thank you! […]

FARM BILL CONSERVATION & OTHER FARM RESOURCE RELATED LEGISLATION

October 24, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, clean water act, climate change, conservation, Corps of Engineers, Drought, EPA, farm bill, forest service, forestry, fsa, impaired waters, livestock, NRCS | Leave a comment

WHAT’S LEFT: PENDING ANIMAL & HABITAT RELATED LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS

October 23, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, american food exports, Animal welfare, animal welfare act, antibiotics, aphis, big cats, bison, captive primate, chimp, congress, cruel trapping, egg, endangered species act, farm, fish and wildlife, fish habitat, HORSE, horse transportation, house, humane care of primates, invasive fish, legislation, marine, marine disease, multinational species, national wildlife refuge, ocean, pet safety, pets, pets on trains, polar bear, prairie chicken, primate, puppies, resolution, sage grouse, senate, soring, wildlife, wildlife services | 1 Comment

The 2014 Farm Bill: Conservation, Forestry & Energy

February 1, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agricultural conservation easement program, agriculture, ARPA-E, BLM, commercial space launch, conservation, conservation compliance, conservation reserve program, conservation stewardship program, country of origin labeling, csp, department of interior, drinking water supplies, electric utilities, energy, environmental quality incentives program, epw, eqip, farm bill, fish and wildlife, fisheries management act, forestry, janice schneider, land and minerals, Natural Resources, nominations, rural energy for american program, sequestration, silviculture, silviculture regulatory consistency act, sodsaver, suh, sustainable agriculture, west virginia drinking water, wetlands, wildlife | Leave a comment

Welcome to Federal Policy Week, a blog that covers activities impacting federal policy in the areas of conservation, energy, environment, animal welfare, and natural resources. For education policy issues, please visit my new blog Fed Ed Policy. To subscribe for Federal Policy Week enter your email address under the “Follow” label at the upper left section […]

Some Wins & Some Setbacks for Animals, Energy, and Nominees

January 23, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged administrator mccarthy, agriculture, alaska, cape wind, carbon capture, CCS, chukchi, chukchi sea, conservation reserve program, court of appeals, department of energy, department of interior, DOE, environment, EPA, epa administrator, epa power plant, FAA, federal court, fiscal year 15, fiscal year 15 budget, fracking, franklin orr, futuregen, fy15, fy15 budget, horse inspection, horse slaughter, horsemeat, hydraulic fracturing, kastner, keystone pipeline, keystone pipeline xl, nantucket bay, national resources, nominees, NRCS, ocean, offshore wind, pipeline, president obama, sequestration | Leave a comment

SOMETHINGS IN THE AIR: THE CAA, METHANE RATES; BIRDS (DYING)

December 16, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged administrator mccarthy, agriculture, antibiotic, bald eagles, beauvois, chicken, clean air act, climate change, conagra, corn-based ethanol, delta air lines, dupont, eagles, electricity, energy, EPA, ethanol, exxon, fda, FEDERAL AGENCIES, fuel economy, golden eagles, interior, john podesta, keystone, koch industries, livestock, methane, microsoft, national forest, nuclear waste, Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2013, obama, pipeline, renewable fuels, repository, RFS, senate energy committee, senator cardin, senator coburn, senator feinstein, senator wyden, small modular reactor, smr, tea party, transport rule, vitter, wilson center, yucca | 1 Comment

THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE. WHAT IT IS AIN’T EXACTLY CLEAR

November 25, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged "competency based", agriculture, america invents act, bird, BLM, charter, common core, duke energy, education, edX, energy, energy efficiency, evolution, farm policy, federal policy, federal programs, gainful employment, gao, gas, Goodlatte, interior, keystone, leahy, mooc, moocs, NRC, nuclear, offshore, oil, oil & gas, patent, revenue, STEM, teach, teachers, teaching, tech, texas school board, troll, turbine, WIND, women & stem, yucca mountain | 2 Comments

Federal Policy Week, in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday and Congressional recess, will not publish next week, but return again on approximately December 8, 2013. Have a great holiday. Welcome to Federal Policy Week, a blog that covers federal policy developments in education, research, science, agriculture, immigration, energy, environment, natural resources, and intellectual property. To […]

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