More than two hundred alphabetically arranged entries offer nontechnical explanations of congressional operations, background on the development of the modern Congress, information on such subjects as the legislative process and the congressional committee system, profiles of individual committees, and short biographies of important members of Congress, past and present.
Provides basic information about such topics as minerals, energy resources, pollution, soils and erosion, wildlife and extinction, agriculture, the ocean, wilderness, hazardous wastes, population, environmental laws, ecology, and evolution.
