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

The (Not So) New Spending Bill

January 14, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged Agriuclture, appropriations, ARPA-E, clean water act, conservation, department of energy, department of interior, DOE, eere, EPA, fish & wildlife, forest service, funding bill, fy2013, fy2014, greenhouse gas emissions, house, interior, nasa, national park service, national science foundation, noaa, NRCS, nsf, science, senate, sequester, sequestration, weather service | Leave a comment

The House and Senate Appropriations Committees produced a bill that covers spending for the rest of FY2014, avoiding another government shutdown. Both the House and Senate Committees released political statements on the bill, as well as a brief and detailed summary. Overall, the bill retains the status quo, but with a bit of additional funds, […]

AND IT GOES ON AND ON, WATCHING THE (MESSY) RIVER RUN

November 6, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged "America Competes", "chairman rodgers", "Chairman rogers", "coal ash", "College Value", "competency based", "federal policy week", "FIRST ACT", "Fischer v. University", "fugitive methane", "house schedule", "indirect costs", "patent troll", "The Frontier in Innovative Research, "The Sun Also Rises", affirmative action, agriculture, and Technology", antiquities act, Aviation, Beloved, budget, Chairman Goodlatte, chamber of commerce, climate, coal, college ratings, committee, common core, COMPETES, courts, defense, democrat, denham, diesel, education, Einstein, energy, energy efficiency, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, fracking, Goodlatte, GOP, higher education act, humanities, immigration, innovation, interior, James Hansen, jewell, mikulski, mooc, nasa, NextGen, nominations, nuclear, nuclear power, obama, PATENTS, renewables, RFS, Rubio, science, scientific community, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hatch, sequestration, technology, Twilight, university, yucca | 2 Comments

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