LegiStorm

Summary:

The federal government, primarily the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), administers a number of laws, largely through states and local agencies, established by Congress to protect human health and the environment. Numerous congressional committees and subcommittees have jurisdiction over these environmental laws for purpose of authorization, appropriations, and oversight. Analysis of environmental policy issues requires an understanding of the impacts to, and from, various industries including coal, oil and gas, manufacturing, and agriculture resulting in overlapping policy issues (e.g., energy, natural resources, and pollution control) requiring coordination among experts on environmental statutes and those industries. The following table provides names and contact information for CRS experts on various environmental policy issues, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("Superfund"), National Environmental Policy Act, Oil Pollution Act, Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act/solid Waste Disposal Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, and related policy, economic, and technical issues facing Congress. Broad policy areas include air and water quality and pollution control, federal financing for wastewater and drinking water treatment, other types of financial assistance, hazardous and nuclear waste management and cleanup, chemicals in commerce, and international environmental issues, including "sustainability." (See also CRS Report R42617, Water Resources and Water Quality: CRS Experts, by Betsy A. Cody and Mary Tiemann and CRS Report R42598, Farm Bill: CRS Experts, by Ralph M. Chite.) The federal government, primarily the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), administers a number of laws, largely through states and local agencies, established by Congress to protect human health and the environment. Numerous congressional committees and subcommittees have jurisdiction over these environmental laws for purpose of authorization, appropriations, and oversight. Analysis of environmental policy issues requires an understanding of the impacts to, and from, various industries including coal, oil and gas, manufacturing, and agriculture resulting in overlapping policy issues (e.g., energy, natural resources, and pollution control) requiring coordination among experts on environmental statutes and those industries. The following table provides names and contact information for CRS experts on various environmental policy issues, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("Superfund"), National Environmental Policy Act, Oil Pollution Act, Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act/solid Waste Disposal Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, and related policy, economic, and technical issues facing Congress. Broad policy areas include air and water quality and pollution control, federal financing for wastewater and drinking water treatment, other types of financial assistance, hazardous and nuclear waste management and cleanup, chemicals in commerce, and international environmental issues, including "sustainability." (See also CRS Report R42617, Water Resources and Water Quality: CRS Experts, by Betsy A. Cody and Mary Tiemann and CRS Report R42598, Farm Bill: CRS Experts, by Ralph M. Chite.) The federal government, primarily the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), administers a number of laws, largely through states and local agencies, established by Congress to protect human health and the environment. Numerous congressional committees and subcommittees have jurisdiction over these environmental laws for purpose of authorization, appropriations, and oversight. Analysis of environmental policy issues requires an understanding of the impacts to, and from, various industries including coal, oil and gas, manufacturing, and agriculture resulting in overlapping policy issues (e.g., energy, natural resources, and pollution control) requiring coordination among experts on environmental statutes and those industries. The following table provides names and contact information for CRS experts on various environmental policy issues, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("Superfund"), National Environmental Policy Act, Oil Pollution Act, Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, and related policy, economic, and technical issues facing Congress. Broad policy areas include air and water quality and pollution control, federal financing for wastewater and drinking water treatment, other types of financial assistance, hazardous and nuclear waste management and cleanup, chemicals in commerce, and international environmental issues, including "sustainability." (See also CRS Report R42617, Water Resources and Water Quality: CRS Experts, by Betsy A. Cody and Mary Tiemann and CRS Report R42598, Farm Bill: CRS Experts, by Ralph M. Chite.) Fees associated with pesticide registration (Pesticide Registration Improvement Act or PRIA) Environmental regulation, permits, permitting, permit requirements, permit delays, regulatory overreach, wetlands Rio Summit, sustainability, sustainable development, Rio+20 Water pollution control, sludge, land application, mountain top mining, mountaintop mining, coal mining, mineral mining, strip mining, Spruce No. 1 mine, milk spillage, dairy regulation, SPCC, Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures, hydraulic fracturing, fracking, underground storage tanks, LUST, UST, LUST Trust Fund Climate change, global warming, CO2, carbon dioxide, carbon pollution Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian tar sands, oil sands, pipeline leak, greenhouse gas footprint Toxics inventories, TRI/EPCRA Solid Waste Disposal Act, waste dumps, waste dumping, municipal solid wastes (MSW) NEPA streamlining, EIS, environmental impact statement, EA, environmental assessment, CX, surface impoundment, waste lagoon, seepage basin Long-term stewardship, NPL Sites, National Priorities List, Hanford, Rocky Flats, Savannah River Site, Fernald, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory, Feed Materials production plant, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Rooky Flats Plant ,Oak Ridge Reservation, K-25, X-10, Y-12, Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Paducah, Portsmouth, Santa Susanna Laboratory, Mound Plant, Pinellas Plant, Kansas City Plant, Pantex Plant, Nevada Test Site, Waste Disposal Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Love Canal, Stringfellow, FUSRAP, Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, FUDS, Formerly Used Defense Sites Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act ("Superfund"), National Environmental Policy Act, Oil Pollution Act, Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Toxic Substances Control Act Air and water quality and pollution control, federal financing for wastewater and drinking water treatment, hazardous and nuclear waste management and cleanup, chemicals in commerce, international environmental issues, "sustainability"