The Monthly Review is part of a continuing effort to improve communications about the role of geoscience in policy.
Current and archived monthly reviews are available online.

Subscribe to receive the Monthly Review directly to your email.

July 2016

​Energy

• Webinar explores proposed nuclear waste storage solutions
• Obama Administration releases new set of rules to govern exploratory drilling in the Arctic
• Interior Department may move offshore oil and gas lease sales online
• House passes two energy research bills
• House Natural Resources panel considers renewable energy on public lands
• Hearing addresses the future of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site

Environment

• Hearing to revise Superfund implementation for first time since enactment

​Federal Agencies & Administration

• Hearing calls for investment in Coast Guard capabilities in the Arctic

Natural Hazards

• House Science Committee hearing focuses on NOAA and DOD satellites
• Briefing highlights role of geoscience in reducing lahar hazards

Natural Resources

• House approves bill to help clean up abandoned mines
• Senate Subcommittee holds hearing on federal sage grouse conservation plans

Water

• Solving western water supply problems remains an ongoing debate

​Federal Register

 

 

 

 

---

Monthly Review prepared by: Maeve Boland, Geoscience Policy Director; Abby Seadler, Geoscience Policy Manager; Ben Mandler, AGI/Schlumberger Fellow in Geoscience Communication; Meg Freiberger and Franklin Wolfe, AGI/AIPG Geoscience Policy Interns; Liana Agrios AGI/AIPG Critical Issues Intern.

TO SUBSCRIBE PLEASE VISIT: http://crm.americangeosciences.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

Compiled August 1, 2016