2012 Report on Renewable Energy.
Michigan Public Service Commission, 2013.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mpsc/implementation_of_PA295_renewable_energy_411615_7.pdf

Advancing Agroforestry on the Policy Agenda: A Guide for Decision-Makers
From the Food and Agriculture Organization
http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i3182e/i3182e00.pdf
Promotes the benefits of combining forests and cropland for sustainable development and other benefits.

Africa Environment Outlook 3: Our Environment, Our Health: Summary for Policy Makers
From the UN Environment Programme and the World Health Organization.
http://www.unep.org/pdf/aeo3.pdf
Discusses the linkage between environment and health in a region where environmental factors account for about 28% of the disease burden.

Agricultural Conservation: A Guide to Programs
From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40763.pdf
Basic information, current funding, and participation information for over 20 programs dealing with conservation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

America's Great Outdoors. 2012 Progress Report.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ago_2012_progress_report.pdf

Biodiversity and Planning Decisions
From the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-429.pdf
Discusses how England tries to balance development with preservation of biodiversity through planning.

Cars, Trucks, and Climate: EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases from Mobile Sources
From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40506.pdf
Describes steps taken by the Obama Administration to clean air by restricting emissions of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles. This report discusses the full range of EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act and how that might affect other mobile sources such as ships, locomotives, and airplanes.

Chemical Data Access Tool
From the Environmental Protection Agency.
http://java.epa.gov/oppt_chemical_search/
A collection of six databases that allow citizens to search for critical chemical information that had previously been restricted as confidential business information.

Climate Change and Food Security: The View from Space.
Brown, Molly E. NASA Goddard Flight Center, 2012.
http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20120015637&qs=N%3D4294163423%2B4294724678%26Nn%3D4294957355%257CNASA-Center%257CMarshall%2BSpace%2BFlight%2BCenter

Coal: A Key Player in Expanded U.S. Energy Exports
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/coal-a-key-player-in-expanded-us-energy-exports.htm
Examines the role that coal has played in boosting U.S. exports and how price trends have affected that performance in recent months.

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Recent Activities and Ongoing Developments
From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42942.pdf
Updates report with information about legislative action in 112th Congress and other recent developments.

Ending America’s Energy Insecurity: Why Electric Vehicles Should Drive the United States to Energy Independence
From the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security
http://www.hsaj.org/?download&mode=dl&h&w&drm=resources%2Fvolume9%2Fissue1%2Fpdfs%2F&f=9.1.4.pdf&altf=9.1.4.pdf
Proposes higher taxes on gasoline with proceeds to be used to lower the price of electric vehicles to promote U.S. energy independence.

Environmental DNA Calibration Study: Interim Technical Review Report.
Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, February 2013.
http://www.asiancarp.us/documents/ECALS_INTERIM.pdf
More information here: http://www.asiancarp.us/ecals.htm

Environmental risks of genetically engineered fish. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, December 15, 2011. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013.
http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo25452

Forest Resources of Isle Royale National Park. Previant, Wilfred J. et al.
Forest Service Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Newtown Square, PA, 2012.
http://nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/42422

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data from Large Facilities
From the Environmental Protection Agency
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/715f5837da2615ef85257b09005ea7af!OpenDocument
Press release announcing availability of greenhouse gas emissions data by sector, type of greenhouse gas, and geographic region such as county or state. Contains links to the specific data files.

Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research
From the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the Executive Office of the President
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf
Lays out new federal government policy for public access to research findings resulting from public funding. Requires free public access within a year of publication in scientific or technical journals. Also calls for public availability of scientific data resulting from publicly funded, unclassified research.

Impacts of environmental changes on treaty rights, traditional lifestyles, and tribal homelands. Hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, July 19, 2012. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs. Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013.
http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo34044

Maximising the Value of Recycled Materials
From the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-425.pdf
Provides an overview of the way materials are recycled in England and how their economic value can be better exploited.

Model year 2013 low greenhouse gas emitting vehicles.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Transportation and Climate Division, 2012.
http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo33858

Natural Disasters as Threats to Peace
From the United States Institute of Peace
http://www.usip.org/files/resources/Natural%20Disasters%20as%20Threats%20to%20Peace%20SR324.pdf
Warns of increasing dangers to peace and political stability from expected increases in the number and scale of extreme weather events related to global warming. Foresees strife over shortages of food, water, and other scarce resources.

Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
From the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-428.pdf
Examines how greenhouse gas emissions are measured, reported, and verified.

Residential Heat Pumps
From the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-426.pdf
Summarizes the use of heat pump technology for residential buildings and constraints on their use in England.

South China Sea
From the Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.gov/countries/analysisbriefs/South_China_Sea/south_china_sea.pdf
Describes the energy resouces in the South China Sea region and the political and technological problems in exploiting them.

State of the Earth’s Cryosphere at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Glaciers, Global Snow Cover, Floating Ice, and Permafrost and Periglacial Environments
From the U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1386a/pdf/pp1386a-1-web.pdf
Describes the results of satellite study of the colder regions of the planet in a time of warming.

State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012
From the World Health Organization and the UN Environment Programme
http://unep.org/pdf/9789241505031_eng.pdf
Scientific update on the possible harmful effects on humans and wildlife from chemicals, especially those with dramatic effects on the hormone system.

Tracking and Forecasting the Nation’s Water Quality Priorities and Strategies for 2013-2023
From the U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2013/3008/fs2013-3008.pdf
Covers the status of water quality in the U.S., groundwater monitoring and modeling, predicting ecological conditions in streams, and forecasting future conditions.

UNEP Yearbook: Emerging Issues in our Global Environment 2013
From the United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/pdf/uyb_2013.pdf
Sounds an alarm about damage to the polar icecaps. As sea ice melts (it was 18% below previous recorded minimums in the summer of 2012), a rush to exploit natural resources creates conditions for further damage to the fragile system.

U.S. and South Korean Cooperation in the World Nuclear Energy Market: Major Policy Considerations
From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41032.pdf
South Korea has transformed itself from being a purchaser of turnkey nuclear plants in the 1970s to a major nuclear technology supplier after a recent contract was signed with the United Arab Emirates. This report discusses how South Korean nuclear development is tied to U.S. firms and subject to U.S. export controls.

Water Resource Issues in the 113th Congress.
Congressional Research Service, 2013.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42947.pdf