Fiscal Year 2000 Climate Change Budget Authorization Request: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, April 14, 1999, Volume 4 |
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| Title | Fiscal Year 2000 Climate Change Budget Authorization Request: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, April 14, 1999, Volume 4 Fiscal Year 2000 Climate Change Budget Authorization Request: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, April 14, 1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment |
| Editor | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | Feb 13, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0160596467, 9780160596469 |
| Length | 1457 pages |
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