Ecology and Environment

Outlook 2006: Legislative Progress Unlikely, though Midterm Elections May Provide Needed Attention

The second session of the 109th Congress will likely wrap some of its most significant environmental legislation into budget bills. The prospect of passing improvements in existing environmental law is slim. Moderate Republicans hold the key to preventing the watering down of major environmental initiatives. [Read more]

For programmatic information on these issues, go to:

• The Environmental Justice Office (part of Social Justice)

Quarterly Bulletins

• Nine months after Katrina : much still needed to achieve environmental justice
  (2nd quarter, 2006)
• Global Warming: Are We Reaching a Tipping Point"?
  (1st quarter, 2006)
• Urge Your Senators Not to Weaken the Endangered
  Species Act
  (1st quarter, 2006)
• Eco-Justice Suffers as Hurricane Devastates New Orleans
  (4th quarter, 2005)
• The Endangered Species Act: A Modern Noah's Ark?
  (3rd quarter, 2005)
• Energy Bill Passes Senate
  (July/August 2005 Washington Report)
• How Will God's Creation Be Affected by Pending Legislation and Regulations?
  (2nd quarter, 2005)
• 2006 Environmental Budget: "Where Your Treasure Is, There Your Heart Is"
  (1st quarter, 2005)
• President Bush and Senator Kerry on Energy Policy, Clean Air and the Environment
  (4th quarter, 2004)
• Forest Service to Replace Roadless Rule
  (3rd quarter, 2004)
• Urge the EPA Not to Weaken Rules on Mercury Pollution
  (2nd quarter, 2004)
• Protecting the Sacred Gift of Air
  (May-June Washington Report)
• The President's Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Proposes Deep Cuts in Environmental Protections
  (1st quarter, 2004)
• 2003 Wrap-Up
  (November-December Washington Report)
• What Is Congress Doing About Climate Change and Unhealthy Air?
  (4th quarter, 2003)
• What’s Going on at the E.P.A.?
  (3rd quarter, 2003)
• Nuclear Power Plants and Drilling in ANWR on the Agenda as Congress Readies Energy Policy
  (May/June Washington Report)
• The Climate Stewardship Act, S. 139 Emissions Trading an Important Step toward Addressing Global Warming
  (2nd quarter, 2003)
• Earth Day Sunday 2003: Waters of Life: Enough for All Education, Advocacy, and Teaching
  (1st quarter, 2003)

Bulletin Archive

Actions

• Urge Your Senators Not to Weaken the Endangered Species Act
  (Action Alert – February 3, 2006)
• Urge Senators to Address Climate Change
  (Action Alert - June 14, 2005)
• Call Your Senators, Ask Them to Support Conservation Measures in the Energy Bill
  (Action Alert — March 14, 2002)
• Speak Out for Stronger Controls on Factory Farm Pollution
  (Action Alert — June 29, 2001)
• Special Action Alert on Wetlands
  (Action Alert — March 17, 2000)
• Wetlands
  (Action Alert — March 17, 2000)
• Action Alert on Climate Change
  (Action Alert — January 4, 1999)

Letters to Legislators

• Implement the Endangered Species Act
  (Sign-on letter – September 28, 2005)
• Stop the EPA from Using FY06 Funds to Test Pesticides on Humans
  Read the amendment
  (Sign-on letter — May 19, 2005)
• Testimony Opposing S 131: ‘Clear Skies’
  (Sign-on letter — February 2, 2005)
• Do Not Undermine the Roadless Rule
  (Sign-on letter — November 12, 2004)
• Address the Impact of Fences on Migrants
  (Sign-on letter — July 9, 2004)
• Don’t Let the Proposal on Mercury Undercut Clean Air Programs
  (Sign-on letter — April 15, 2004)
• Enforce Strict Controls on Power Plant Emissions
  (Sign-on letter — March 16, 2004)
• WISC Opposes Energy Bill
  (Sign-on letter — November 18, 2003)
• Assure Protections for Human Test Subjects
  (Sign-on letter — August 18, 2003)
• Energy Policy Must Be Just and Sustainable
  (Sign-on letter — July 25, 2003)
• Adopt a Fair Energy Policy
  (Sign-on letter — June 2, 2003)
• Oppose Legislation to Weaken the Clean Air Act
  (Sign-on letter — May 7, 2003)
• Budget to Protect Our Enviroment
  (Sign-on letter — January 27, 2003)
• National Energy Policy
  (Sign-on letter — September 30, 2002)