Congress is due to debate the reauthorisation of two bits of green legislation, the Endangered Species Act and Superfund, which deals with contaminated land.
The forthcoming debates over Superfund and the Endangered Species Act both raise awkward questions about how to balance protection of the environment against the rights of property owners.
And by design, Recovery Act work on roads, bridges, water systems, Superfund sites, broadband networks, and clean energy projects will all be ramping up in the months ahead.