This brief discusses the costs related to the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States.

A report that describes the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) biodiversity conservation and forestry programs for fiscal year 2008.

EPA's Water Quality Scorecard was developed to help local governments identify opportunities to remove barriers, and revise and create codes, ordinances, and incentives for better water quality protection. It guides municipal staff through a review of relevant local codes and ordinances, across multiple municipal departments and at the three scales within the jurisdiction of a local government (municipality, neighborhood, and site) to ensure that these codes work together to protect water quality goals.

Report summarizing the USAID's efforts in preventing and controlling tuberculosis worldwide.

This report summarizes the issues and approaches involved in motivating customers to reduce the total energy they consume through energy prices and rate design.

Report discussing global climate change that poses one of the nation's most significant long-term policy challenges. The report makes four key points: Climate change is an international problem, the economic impact of a policy to ameliorate that risk would depend importantly on the design of the policy., reducing the risk of climate change would come at some cost to the economy, and climate legislation would cause permanent shifts in production and employment away from industries focused on the production of carbon-based energy and energy-intensive goods and services toward the production of alternative energy sources and less-energy-intensive goods and services.

This paper is provided to assist utility regulators, gas and electric utilities, and others in meeting the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency's goal of achieving all cost-effective energy efficiency by 2025.

This brief documents how energy efficiency program administrators have used technical, institutional, financial, and other resources to help advance building energy codes at the federal, state, and local levels, and describes the issues involved in fostering an expanded administrator role for the future. This brief is provided as part of a comprehensive suite of tools and resources to assist organizations in meeting the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency goal to achieve all cost-effective energy efficiency by 2025. Funding

National screening-level survey of chemical residues in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs in the conterminous united States.

Annual progress report describing programs and funding for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) health-related research and development.

A report which discusses last year's Strategic Management Plan by describing the integrated activities that comprise the Department's performance management system. It also establishes five top-level priorities for business operations.

A report made by the EPA to alert people to the environmental issue about mass decontamination runoff.

This report evaluates the damage cause by Hurricane Rita to the benthic habitats of four banks: Sonnier, McGrail, Geyer, and Bright. They measured the damage to bank caps the community structure, and used SCUBA to video record the evidence.

A presentation that analysis the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 as well as the economic wide cap and trade program, the energy efficiency provisions, and the competitiveness provisions.

This report summarizes USAID's investments and priorities in microfinance and microenterprise development.

This report discusses the activities and accomplishments of the Auke Bay Marine Ecology and Stock Assessment Program based in Juneau Alaska.

A report about USAID and its participation in Jamaican policing.

This report presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about the Earth's climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation.

Report discussing the activities of the U.S. Good Neighbor Environmental Boar regarding pollution prevention and projects to solve environmental problems around the U.S.-Mexico border. It outlines the goals of the agency, describes case studies, and reflects on plans and recommendations for the future.

This report discusses the technical procedures necessary to produce accurate wetland acreage estimates. The goal in following these procedures is to produce data to support national decisions.

A paper about how the United States Environmental Protection Agency accepts applications from federally recognized Tribal governments and Tribal consortia with specific focus on the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities to receive financial assistance through the Sustainability for the 7th Generation Initiative (SGI).

A document that provides initial Forest Service guidance on how to consider climate change in project-level National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis and documentation.

This report discusses the current and future Arctic marine activity. The results of this comprehensive assessment are a range of key findings linked to the main topics identifiers.

A report by the National Science Foundation highlighting research in climate change related to the sky, sea, ice, land, life, and people around the world.