Research Guides: Sustainability Policy Studies: U.S. Government Information

Researching with Government Documents

For more see the Government Information portal at Columbia.

Climate Change

Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions: The report on global warming, requested by President Bush from the National Academy of Science, Committee on the Science of Climate Change, June 6, 2001.
Planning Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan, National Academy of Science, February 25, 2003
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): ATSDR implements the health-related sections of laws that protect the public from hazardous wastes and environmental spills of hazardous substances. This site connects to various databases and includes lists of Superfund sites.
Climate Diagnostics Center: The mission of the Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) is to identify the nature and causes for climate variations on time scales ranging from a month to centuries. It is a joint project of CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) and NOAA (see below).
Department of Commerce:

Environmental Topics

Council On Environmental Quality: Formulates and recommends national policies to promote the improvement of the quality of the environment.
Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Office of Environmental Management

Energy

Department of Energy: The Department of Energy has four distinct missions: Energy, Defense, Cleanup and Waste Management, and Science, Technology and the National Labs.

Energy and Environment Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Office of Environmental Management