Senate Committee on Environment

Kinner, N.E., Fate, Transport and Remediation of MTBE, Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Salem, NH, April 23, 2001. 

Toxic Substances, Environmental Oversight, Research and Development of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Washington D. C. US General Accounting Office. 

See Testimony of David G. Hawkins, Director, NRDC Climate Center, Hearings on S. 385, Clear Skies Act of 2003 , U.S. Senate Committee on Environment Public Works, Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety, April 8, 2003 National Environmental Trust http //www.cleartheair.org/mercury/mercuryhurts. 

R. Mouee-Eeaso, Written Testimony Submitted by U.S. Chemical Scfety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso to the Joint Committee Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing entitled, Oversight of the Implementation of the President s Executive Order on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security , December 11,2014, found at http //www.csb.gOv/assets/l/16/December l lth hearing Final.pdf (accessed December 20, 2014). 

U.S. Chemical Safety Board, Testimony of Rafael Moure-Eraso, Ph.D., Chairperson, U.S. Chemical Safety Board, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Pubhc Works, June 27, 2013, http //www.csb.gOv/assets/l/19/CSB Written Senate Testimony 6.27. 13.pdf, (accessed Dec 2014). 

Mielke HW. 1984. Hearing before the committee on environment and public works, United States Senate. Ninety-eighth Congress. Second session. Washington, DC. 

Crocker, T.D., Statement, Select Committee on Small Business and Committee on Environment and Public Works, Economic Impact of Acid Rain, U.S. Senate, 96th Cong., 2nd Sess. (Sept. 23, 1980), 100-111. 

The specific request for this study came from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and Business Rights endorsed the study. 

McElroy, M. B. (1975). Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on the environment and the Atmosphere, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., transcript No. 57-788, pp. 196-199 and Testimony U.S. Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Subcommittee on the Upper Atmosphere, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., transcript No. 60-183, pp. 1025-1049. 

General Accounting Office. Wastewater Facilities Experts Views on How Federal Funds Should Be Spent to Improve Security. Report to the Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate January 2005 Available from . 

Abrams, R. Acid Rain, Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate, 1982 pp 170-171. 

When the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works looked at the Airborne Lead Reduction Act of 1984, a proposed amendment to the CAA that would ban the sale of leaded gasoline for general use, medical experts reviewed the medical research on health effects of lead exposme... 

Ibid., p. 17, p. A-2. The natural occurrence of Fusarium in Southeast Asia is not disputed by experts Dr Mirocha, for example, testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that it was found there he argued, however, that natural contamination of the sample he had tested was unlikely. (Subcommittees on Arms control. International Operations and the Environment, 10 November 1981.)... 

Statement by Ambassador Lawrence S. Eagleburger before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, Oceans, International Operations and Environment, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 24 February 1983, printed by US Department of State as Current Policy Document No. 458 of 24 February 1983. 

The potential mineral resources of the Transantarctic Mountains, including metallic and radioactive minerals as well as coal in the Beacon Supergroup, were discussed in Section 11.5. We now turn to the Dufek intrusion which contains several important metals Iron, titanium, chromium, vanadium, copper, cobalt, nickel, and members of the platinum group of elements. Although the Dufek intrusion is an attractive target for mineral exploration. Ford (1990) emphasized that no minable deposits of any kind are currently known to exist there. The scientific merits of drilling the Dufek intrusion were discussed in 1979 by the Committee on Eneigy and Natural Resources of the US. Senate, but these discussions were terminated becanse of concern about contamination of the environment. 

As industry and environmentalists traded shots on the chlorine restriction proposals, the Senate Environment and Pubhc Works Committee approved revisions to the 1972 Clean Water Act, clearing the way for a floor vote. The legislation would loosen certain water cleanup requirement for local governments, increase Federal loans to improve sewage treatment, and increase Federal regulation of non-point-source runoffs such as fertilizers and pesticides that wash from farmlands into lakes and streams. The revisions were supported by the U.S. Administration, but they do not include an EPA proposal to develop a plan to reduce or prohibit discharge of chlorine or chlorinated compounds into water. The bill would authorize 2.5 billion for a fund for sewage treatment in 1997. 

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