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Budget

• Budget update for September
• Agency contingency plans for the government shutdown

Energy

• Ninth Circuit upholds California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
• CRS report on laws & regulations on exporting fossil fuels
• DOI holds offshore wind lease sale
• Vote on energy legislation delayed

Environment

• NRC report studies land change models
• Role of climate change in 2012 weather events
• New map of areas most vulnerable to climate change
• Climate change legislation in the 113th Congress
• IPCC’s fifth assessment report on climate change
• Carbon pollution standards for new power plants

Federal Agencies & Administration

• EPA’s improved Environmental Impact Statement map
• Federal investments in R&D, CRS report
• NOAA’s five year research & development plan
• USGS, NASA call for ideas to preserve earth observation data
• NOAA releases dataset from Deepwater Horizon oil spill
• Neil Kornze expected to be nominated as Director of BLM
• Environmental lawyer may get top DOI post

Natural Hazards

• National flood insurance rates on the rise
• State, Federal partnership working to improve tsunami resilience 
• Colorado Senators want more federal aid

Natural Resources

• House approves bill to streamline mining on US land
• President poised to sign bi-partisan helium legislation

Federal Register

Monthly Review prepared by: Maeve Boland, Geoscience Policy Director; Abby Seadler, Geoscience Policy Associate; andSophia Ford, AGI/AAPG Fall Intern.

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Compiled October 1, 2013