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January 2016

Congress

• House Science Committee marks up civilian nuclear energy bill
• The Energy Policy Modernization Act heads to the Senate floor

​Energy

• Oil and gas companies cutting prodcution and workers

Environment

• Oklahoma calls for a reduction in wastewater injection 
• Abandoned Mine Reclamation Safety Act seeks to prevent pollution, increase worker safety
• Science Advisory Board questions EPA hydraulic fracturing report
• Carbonate growth rings on rocks tell about North America's climate past
• BLM proposes methane reform to 30-year-old oil and gas regulations

​Federal Agencies & Administration

• DOE will work to craft a strategy to dispose of nuclear waste in 2016
• January 2016 State of the Union from a geosciences perspective

Water

• House passes bill blocking controversial stream rule

​Federal Register

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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Compiled February 8, 2016