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September 2015

Budget

• Continuing Resolution will fund the federal government through Dec 11

Congress

• New bill would draw on citizen science, crowdsourcing to solve national problems
• Land Water Conservation Fund expired September 30
• Hearing Oct 20 to consider the nomination of Dr. Suzette Kimball to be Director of the USGS

​Energy

• House Energy and Commerce Committee approves legislation to undo crude oil export ban
• DOE releases 2015 Quadrennial Technology Review
• Vice President Biden and DOE announce funding for new SunShot Initiative

​Federal Agencies & Administration

• President Obama plans to accelerate the acquisition of a new U.S. icebreaker
• New Executive Order aims to improve federal programs with social science research

​Natural Hazards

• Congress reauthorizes the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program

​Space

• NASA Orbiter may reveal liquid water on Mars

​Federal Register

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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Compiled October 13, 2015