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January 2015
- Senate amends, passes bill approving Keystone XL
- New committee members in House and Senate
- New subcommittees announced for the House Natural Resources Committee
- Atlantic Ocean opened for outer continental shelf oil and gas leasing
- President and federal agencies propose new restrictions, leases in Arctic
- Leasing for offshore wind farms sells half of allotments
- Process of hydraulic fracturing linked to Ohio earthquakes
Federal Agencies & Administration
- New director for USGS Earthquake Science Center
- GAO report: NOAA likely to experience gap in satellite weather data in 2016
- NOAA chooses Craig McLean as Assistant Administrator
- House passes bill on tsunami and windstorm research
- Wildfire funding bill reintroduced by Sen. Wyden and Crapo
- National Research Council report on priorities in ocean research for next decade
- Executive order creates new flood requirements for federal projects
Monthly Review prepared by: Maeve Boland, Geoscience Policy Director; Abby Seadler, Geoscience Policy Associate; Meg Gilley, Geoscience Policy Associate; Peri Sasnett, AGI/AAPG Fall Intern; and Piper Lewis, AGI/AAPG Spring Intern.
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Compiled February 10, 2015