Library Guides: Environmental Studies: Policy

Policy Analysis

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
These full-text issue briefs provide insight into how the federal government addresses environmental issues through legislation. CRS Reports are written for Members of Congress, but in 2018, they were required to be made available to citizens.
Think Tank Search
Find publications written by partisan and non-partisan public policy research groups. Choose the "About us" page for each think tank to determine if they are partisan or non-partisan.

Congress.gov
Legislative information provided by the Library of Congress. Try the House or Senate Sponsors and Cosponsors list or "Introduced" list to browse bills and resolutions. The Congressional Record Daily Digest lists congressional activity for each day.

ProQuest Congressional
U.S. congressional reports, hearings, bills, etc., & biographical, financial and voting information on congressional members. Congress in Context reports for a given Congress are an overview of the major congressional legislation, as well as world events, Supreme Court decisions, and economic trends.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Political science and international relations journals. 1975-
JSTOR
Full text multidisciplinary archive of core scholarly journals.