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Branches (2)
Council on Environmental Quality
The White House office that coordinates environmental policy and oversees how agencies carry out the National Environmental Policy Act
United States Botanic Garden
A living plant museum at the foot of Capitol Hill, run by Congress through the Architect of the Capitol
Departments (20)
ARPA-E
The Energy Department agency, modeled on DARPA, that funds high-risk, high-reward energy technology research
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
The Interior Department agency that leases federal offshore waters for oil, gas, wind, and minerals
Bureau of Reclamation
The Interior Department agency that built the great western dams and remains the largest wholesaler of water in the country
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
The Interior Department agency that inspects offshore oil and gas operations and enforces safety and spill prevention rules
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
The Transportation Department agency that sets vehicle safety standards, orders recalls, and regulates fuel economy
National Weather Service
The NOAA agency that issues the nation's official weather forecasts, watches, and warnings
Natural Resources Conservation Service
The USDA agency born of the Dust Bowl that helps farmers and ranchers conserve soil, water, and habitat on private land
Office of Environmental Management
The Energy Department office cleaning up radioactive and hazardous waste left by decades of nuclear weapons production
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
The Interior Department agency that regulates coal mining's effects on land and water and funds cleanup of abandoned mines
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
The Transportation Department agency that regulates oil and gas pipeline safety and the shipment of hazardous materials
The Bureau of Land Management
The landlord of the American West: 245 million acres of public rangeland, desert, and forest, and the minerals beneath far more
The Department of Energy
Mostly a nuclear weapons agency: the warheads, the national laboratories, the cleanup, and the energy research
The Department of the Interior
The steward of a fifth of the nation's land: parks, public rangeland, wildlife, water, minerals, and the trust relationship with tribes
The National Laboratories
Seventeen government-owned, contractor-run research centers born from the Manhattan Project
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The weather forecast, the hurricane center, the fisheries, the nautical charts, and the satellites that watch the planet
The National Park Service
The agency that runs 433 parks, monuments, battlefields, and historic sites for more than 300 million visitors a year
The U.S. Forest Service
The agency that manages 193 million acres of national forests and fights most of the nation's wildfires
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The Army command that builds military facilities and runs the nation's navigation channels, flood control works, and dams
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The Interior Department agency that manages wildlife refuges and enforces the Endangered Species Act for land and freshwater species
U.S. Geological Survey
The Interior Department's science agency for maps, water, earthquakes, volcanoes, minerals, and the land itself
Agencies (10)
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
The independent federal agency that oversees Section 106 review, the process requiring federal projects to consider their effects on historic places
Atomic Energy Commission Dissolved
The civilian commission that controlled U.S. nuclear weapons production and promoted and regulated nuclear power from 1947 until it was split in two in 1975
Civilian Conservation Corps Dissolved
The New Deal program that put about 3 million young men to work planting trees, fighting erosion, and building parks from 1933 to 1942
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
The independent board that oversees safety at the Energy Department's nuclear weapons sites and recommends improvements to protect workers and the public
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The independent commission that regulates interstate electricity transmission, wholesale power markets, natural gas pipelines, and hydropower dams
Minerals Management Service Dissolved
The Interior Department agency that leased offshore oil and gas, regulated drilling, and collected mineral royalties until it was broken up after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster
The Environmental Protection Agency Reorganizing
The regulator of air, water, chemicals, pesticides, and hazardous waste
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The safety regulator for civilian nuclear power plants, reactors, and radioactive materials
The Tennessee Valley Authority
The largest public power provider in the country, created by the New Deal to remake an impoverished river valley
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
The small independent agency that investigates industrial chemical accidents and recommends ways to prevent them
Processes (1)
Withdrawals from International Organizations (2025 to 2026)
How the United States left the World Health Organization, the Paris Agreement, and dozens of other international bodies in 2025 and 2026, and the legal debate over presidential withdrawal
Principles (1)
Cost-Benefit Analysis
The practice, required by executive order since 1981, of weighing the expected costs and benefits of major federal regulations before they are issued
Documents & Cases (2)
Chevron v. NRDC (1984) Dissolved
The case that told courts to defer to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, the most cited administrative law ruling until it was overruled in 2024
West Virginia v. EPA (2022)
The case that formally named the major questions doctrine, limiting the EPA's power to shift the electricity grid away from coal
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