American Chemical Society Legislative Action Network

Concern is rising among the bioscience community regarding the future state of the NIH budget. The notion that the NIH was "taken care of" in the ARRA is being deeply criticized within the community. With the FY 2010 appropriation bills...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is granting California's waiver request.  This will allow California to enforce it greenhouse gas emissions standards for new automobiles.  This enforcement begins...

According to an article in The New York Times, the National Cancer Institute has spent $105 billion dollars since 1971, and the American Cancer Society, which is the largest private financer of cancer research, has spent $3.4 billion on research grants since 1946. Thus the question arises, why is the fight against cancer advancing so slowly...

The following schedule takes place for the week of June 29^th - July 3^rd. The 111^th Congress is in recess this week and will reconvene next month. The Senate reconvenes at...

Last Friday the House narrowly passed a comprehensive energy bill that focused on clean energy and green jobs.  Include in the bill is a provision to expand the ACS supported ARPA-E program.  ARPA-E was developed to preform...