From time to time, we browse recently released Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports and highlight those with potential interest to our readers. This week’s release was so extensive we’ve organized documents into broad categories.

Clicking a title will open a new browser window with a document summary, from which the full report can be downloaded in portable document format (pdf). Dates indicate when the reports were prepared. To browse past listings, enter “CRS Reports” in the search box.

Health & Human Rights

AIDS Funding for Federal Government Programs: FY1981-FY2009
RL30731 - April 23, 2008

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA): Implementation and New Challenges
RL34118 - July 18, 2008

Bisphenol A (BPA) in Plastics and Possible Human Health Effects
RS22869 - July 23, 2008

The U.N. Population Fund: Background and the U.S. Funding Debate
RL32703 - July 24, 2008

International Population Assistance and Family Planning Programs: Issues for Congress
RL33250 - July 24, 2008

Title X (Public Health Service Act) Family Planning Program
RL33644 - August 4, 2008

The United Nations Human Rights Council: Issues for Congress
RL33608 - July 31, 2008

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): Congressional Issues
RL33652 - August 5, 2008

Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding
RL30871 - August 7, 2008

Health and Safety Concerns Over U.S. Imports of Chinese Products: An Overview
RS22713 - July 29, 2008

Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: A Deepening Humanitarian Crisis?
RL33936 - August 15, 2008

International HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: Key Changes to U.S. Programs and Funding
RL34569 - August 25, 2008

Environment

U.S. Global Climate Change Policy: Evolving Views on Cost, Competitiveness, and Comprehensiveness
RL30024 - January 28, 2008

Global Climate Change: Three Policy Perspectives
98-738 - February 7, 2008

Polar Bears: Proposed Listing Under the Endangered Species Act
RL33941 - April 30, 2008

Nanotechnology and Environmental, Health, and Safety: Issues for Consideration
RL34614 - August 6, 2008

Capturing CO2 from Coal-Fired Power Plants: Challenges for a Comprehensive Strategy
RL34621 - August 15, 2008

Energy

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues
RL33341 - July 29, 2008

Biofuels Incentives: A Summary of Federal Programs
RL33572 - July 29, 2008

Oil Development on Federal Lands and the Outer Continental Shelf
RS22928 - August 6, 2008

Renewable Energy Policy in the 2008 Farm Bill
RL34130 - August 1, 2008

Energy Tax Policy: History and Current Issues
RL33578 - August 1, 2008

Nuclear Energy Policy
RL33558 - September 2, 2008

Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global Access to Nuclear Power
RL34234 - September 3, 2008

Oil Spills in U.S. Coastal Waters: Background, Governance, and Issues for Congress
RL33705 - September 2, 2008

Royalty Relief for U.S. Deepwater Oil and Gas Leases
RS22567 - September 18, 2008

Science, Technology

Follow-On Biologics: Intellectual Property and Innovation Issues
RL33901 - May 21, 2008

Engineered Nanoscale Materials and Derivative Products: Regulatory Challenges
RL34332 - July 18, 2008

U.S. National Science Foundation: Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
RL30930 - August 7, 2008

Advanced Vehicle Technologies: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues
RL30484 - December 6, 2007

Disaster Preparedness & Relief

FEMA Disaster Housing and Hurricane Katrina: Overview, Analysis, and Congressional Issues
RL34087 - August 8, 2008

Midwest Flooding Disaster: Rethinking Federal Flood Insurance?
RL34610 - August 11, 2008

The Public Health and Medical Response to Disasters: Federal Authority and Funding
RL33579 - June 23, 2008

The Public Health and Medical Response to Disasters: Federal Authority and Funding
RL33579 - August 1, 2008

Public Health and Medical Preparedness and Response: Issues in the 110th Congress
RS22602 - August 1, 2008

International

Countries of the World and International Organizations: Sources of Information
96-816 - January 30, 2008

United Nations Regular Budget Contributions: Members Compared, 1989-2006
RL30605 - January 28, 2008

United Nations Reform: U.S. Policy and International Perspectives
RL33848 - August 5, 2008

United Nations Peacekeeping: Issues for Congress
RL33700 - August 5, 2008

Nuclear Cooperation with Other Countries: A Primer
RS22937 - August 12, 2008

U.S.-Russian Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Issues for Congress
RS22892 - July 30, 2008

Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons
RL32572 - July 29, 2008

China’s Economic Conditions
RL33534 - August 7, 2008

China’s Economy and the Beijing Olympics
RS22936 - August 6, 2008

Comparing Global Influence: China’s and U.S. Diplomacy, Foreign Aid, Trade, and Investment in the Developing World
RL34620 - August 15, 2008

Globalization, Worker Insecurity, and Policy Approaches
RL34091 - July 31, 2008

Balkan Cooperation on War Crimes Issues
RS22097 - July 25, 2008

U.S. Assistance to North Korea
RS21834 - July 31, 2008

Low-Income Country Debt Cancellation: H.R. 2634 and S. 2166
RL34644 - August 25, 2008

Instability in Chad
RS22798 - August 6, 2008


* The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the independent, non-partisan public policy arm of the U.S. Congress, and conducts its research in response to requests from members of Congress. CRS reports are in the public domain; however, documents are generally not released to the public except through the requesting member of Congress. Documents listed above are made available through the independent Open CRS project.