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114 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) FY2026 Budget Request and Appropriations
2025-09-05 · Resources · IF13024 · HTML available · PDF available
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress
2025-07-14 · Reports · R41153 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP): Overview and Considerations for Congress
2025-07-02 · Reports · R48478 · HTML available · PDF available
Nuclear Energy and Climate Change Mitigation
2025-07-01 · Reports · R48480 · HTML available · PDF available
National Environmental Policy Act: An Overview
2025-06-26 · Resources · IF12560 · HTML available · PDF available
EPA to Revisit Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
2025-06-06 · Posts · LSB11320 · HTML available · PDF available
Methane Emissions: U.S. and International Mitigation Efforts
2025-05-06 · Reports · R48424 · HTML available · PDF available
Coastal Blue Carbon as a Carbon Dioxide Removal Approach: Selected Issues for Congress
2025-04-29 · Reports · R48148 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Process and Potential Effects
2025-04-14 · Reports · R48504 · HTML available · PDF available
Inflation Reduction Act Methane Emissions Charge: Overview and Developments
2025-03-28 · Reports · R48475 · HTML available · PDF available
Greenhouse Gas Reporting for Carbon Injection and Sequestration Through Enhanced Oil Recovery Wells
2025-03-19 · Resources · IF12947 · HTML available · PDF available
Understanding NOAA’s “Billion-Dollar Disasters”
2025-03-17 · Resources · IF12944 · HTML available · PDF available
Extreme Heat and Climate Change
2025-03-11 · Resources · IF12733 · HTML available · PDF available
Selected Potential Considerations with Respect to Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: In Brief
2025-03-10 · Reports · R48159 · HTML available · PDF available
Farm Bill Primer: Agricultural Research and Extension
2025-02-20 · Resources · IF12023 · HTML available
Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: Background and Recent Developments
2025-02-20 · Resources · IF12916 · HTML available · PDF available
Advances in Satellite Methane Emissions Measurement
2025-02-13 · Resources · IF12072 · HTML available · PDF available
NOAA’s Future Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Mission
2025-02-04 · Resources · IF12898 · HTML available · PDF available
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: CRS Products
2025-01-06 · Reports · R47254 · HTML available · PDF available
The California Cap-and-Trade Program: Overview and Considerations for Congress
2024-12-18 · Reports · R48314 · HTML available · PDF available
The POWER Initiative: Energy Transition as Economic Development
2024-12-04 · Reports · R46015 · HTML available · PDF available
Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Legislation: 108th Through 118th Congresses
2024-12-04 · Reports · R45472 · HTML available · PDF available
DOE’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Removal Programs
2024-11-29 · Resources · IF11861 · HTML available · PDF available
Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR): Its Potential Role in Climate Change Mitigation
2024-11-12 · Reports · R48258 · HTML available · PDF available
Paris Agreement: Nationally Determined Contributions Conditional on International Support—In Brief
2024-10-28 · Reports · R48248 · HTML available · PDF available
Border Carbon Adjustments: Policy Considerations, Legislation, and Developments in the European Union
2024-10-28 · Reports · R48247 · HTML available · PDF available
Climate Change: What Are Net-Zero Emissions?
2024-09-04 · Resources · IF12753 · HTML available · PDF available
Automobiles, Air Pollution, and Climate Change
2024-06-14 · Resources · IF12433 · HTML available · PDF available
Climate Change, Slow-Onset Disasters, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
2024-05-28 · Posts · IN11696 · HTML available · PDF available
EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)
2024-05-21 · Resources · IF12387 · HTML available · PDF available
Nuclear Energy in a Climate Change Context: Current Appropriations for Nuclear Energy Development
2024-05-15 · Resources · IF12636 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. International Climate Finance: FY2025
2024-05-06 · Resources · IF12652 · HTML available · PDF available
Aviation, Air Pollution, and Climate Change
2024-04-26 · Resources · IF11696 · HTML available · PDF available
Class VI Carbon Sequestration Wells: Permitting and State Program Primacy
2024-04-16 · Reports · R48033 · HTML available · PDF available
Is Climate Change Influencing Wildfires? Climate Change Effects on Wildfires in the United States
2023-12-15 · Posts · IN12288 · HTML available · PDF available
India: Climate Change Issues
2023-12-05 · Resources · IF12178 · HTML available · PDF available
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Pledges by Selected Countries: Nationally Determined Contributions and Net-Zero Legislation
2023-11-07 · Reports · R46945 · HTML available · PDF available
Cement: Background and Low-Carbon Production
2023-11-03 · Resources · IF12526 · HTML available · PDF available
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA): Provisions Related to Climate Change
2023-10-26 · Reports · R47262 · HTML available · PDF available
Mass Timber: Overview and Issues for Congress
2023-10-12 · Reports · R47752 · HTML available · PDF available
A Bar Too High: Concerns with CEQ’s Proposed Regulatory Hurdle for Federal Contracting
2023-09-20 · Testimony · TE10085 · HTML available · PDF available
Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
2023-09-07 · Resources · IF12487 · HTML available · PDF available
The Legal Framework for Federal Methane Regulation
2023-09-05 · Resources · IF12217 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. Forest Carbon Data: In Brief
2023-06-06 · Reports · R46313 · HTML available · PDF available
Is That Climate Change? The Science of Extreme Event Attribution
2023-06-01 · Reports · R47583 · HTML available · PDF available
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. Electricity Sector: Background, Policies, and Projections
2023-05-18 · Reports · R47561 · HTML available · PDF available
Solar Geoengineering and Climate Change
2023-05-09 · Reports · R47551 · HTML available · PDF available
Ocean Acidification: Frequently Asked Questions
2023-04-25 · Reports · R47300 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. International Climate Finance: A Primer
2023-04-24 · Resources · IF10763 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. International Climate Finance: FY2024
2023-04-24 · Resources · IF12036 · HTML available · PDF available