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Congressional Scorecard 2009	2009-12-30
The 2009 Congressional Scorecard released by Environment America found more environmental progress and more champions even as the group noted the challenges of enacting more significant environmental protections. Environment America is releasing the scorecard as part of its campaign to pass legislation in Congress to repower our economy with clean energy and cut global warming pollution.
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Washington's Environment At Risk: The Local Impacts of the Bush Administration's Environmental Policies	2004-04-15
On April 22, 1970, America celebrated its first Earth Day, demonstrating a national and truly bipartisan outpouring of concern for cleaning up the environment. According to some recollections of that day, "So many politicians were on the stump on Earth Day that Congress was forced to close down. The oratory, one of the wire services observed, was 'as thick as smog at rush hour.'" 1 In the decade that followed, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and other laws that form the cornerstone of our country's commitment to protect the environment and public health.
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