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May 2016

Budget

• House Appropriations Committee approves funding for NASA, NSF, NIST, NOAA and OSTP
• Senate passes Energy and Water appropriations bill, House unable to do so

Congress

• BOEM five-year OCS plan meets opposition in Senate hearing

​Energy

• KY and WV tapping into new hydroelectric power
• AES holds briefing on offshore energy in the United States
• RFF and Duke University hold seminar on impacts of oil and gas development on local governments and communities

​Federal Agencies & Administration

• EPA releases final rule on curbing methane emissions
• DOE awards $4 million in R&D projects to recover critical materials from geothermal fluids

Natural Hazards

• COAST Act would help protect Houston from flooding

Water

• New World Bank report outlines how water scarcity could impact us in the future
• Five Senate bills focus on western water
• Briefing highlights need for investment in water infrastructure
• National Academies Rountable holds workshop on use of flowback and produced waters from the oil and gas industry

​Federal Register

 

 

 

 

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Monthly Review prepared by: Maeve Boland, Geoscience Policy Director; Abby Seadler, Geoscience Policy Manager; Ben Mandler, AGI/Schlumberger Fellow in Geoscience Communication; Madeline Atkins, AGI/AAPG Geoscience Policy Intern.

 

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Compiled June 9, 2016