CLIMATE: THE RACE IS ON…AND OTHER NEWS

October 2, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in felony, marine reserve | tagged animal cruelty, BLM, chemicals, climate, climate change, democrats, energy, EPA, extinction, fbi, felony, flooding, fracking, GOP, HORSE, house science committee, interior, keystone, marine reserve, omb, pacific ocean, republicans, senate, wolf, wolves, world wildlife, wyoming | Leave a 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! IN […]

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 […]

SENATE SHUFFLE: IMPACT ON ENERGY, CLIMATE, FORESTS & MORE

December 30, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged "coal ash", alaska, appropriations, Arctic, bald eagles, baucus, BLM, boxer, budget, climate, climate action plan, confirmation, deep horizon, department of interior, energy, EPA, epw, finance committee, forest, gao, greater sage grouse, house energy committee, hydro, interior, International Students, izembek, keystone, landrieu, national forest, natural gas, nevada, nuclear, oil spill, permits, renewable fuels, renewables, royalties, sage grouse, secretary jewell, senate, senate energy committee, senate environment, tax, turbine, usgs, WIND, wind power, wyden | 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 […]

DEAL OR NO DEAL – WILL THE BUDGET CONFERENCE SUCCEED (AND MUCH MORE)

November 17, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged administration, affirmative action, agencies, agriculture, appropriations, budget, carbon capture, cellulosic ethanol, chimps, climate, coal, commerce, congress, education, energy, environment, EPA, ethanol, Fair Use, federal policy, for-profits, FTC, gainful employment, Grants, hearings, Higher ed, immigration, interior, International Students, jewell, military, mining, natural gas, nih, nominations, obama, oil, Online Ed, politics, post-9/11, renewables, research, science, sequester, STEM, textbooks, transmissions, tuition, us energy production, water, wrda, wrds | Leave a comment

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