Energy Critical Elements: Identifying Research Needs and Strategic Priorities

Witnesses
The Honorable David Sandalow
Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Department of Energy
Derek Scissors
Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation
Robert Jaffe
Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karl Gschneidner

Helium: Supply Shortages Impacting our Economy, National Defense and Manufacturing

Witnesses:
Panel 1
Tim Spisak
Deputy Assistant Director, Minerals and Realty Management, Bureau of Land Management

Proposed NOAA Climate Service

Witnesses
Dr. Jane Lubchenco
Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Impacts of Environmental Change on Treaty Rights, Traditional Lifestyles, and Tribal Homelands

Witnesses:
Panel I
Joann Chase
Director for the American Indian Environmental Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Margaret Davidson
Acting Director for the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Update on the Latest Climate Change Science and Local Adaptation Measures

Mammatus clouds that are usually associated with thunderstorms.

Witnesses:
Panel I
Christopher Field
Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Professor, Stanford University
John Christy
Director and Distinguished Professor, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville
James McCarthy

Law of the Sea Convention: Perspectives from Business and Industry

Witnesses:
Thomas Donahue
President & CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Jack Gerard
President & CEO, American Petroleum Institute
Jay Timmons
President & CEO, National Association of Manufacturers
Lowell McAdam
Chairman & CEO, Verizon

Oversight: Review of EPA Regulations Replacing the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) and the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR)

Witnesses
Panel 1
The Honorable Gina McCarthy
Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency

The European Union's Emissions Trading System

Witnesses
Panel I
The Honorable Ray LaHood
Secretary, Department of Transportation

Panel II
Jos Delbeke

The American Energy Initiative: A Focus on EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Witnesses:
Panel I
Robb MacKie
President and CEO, American Bakers Association
Carl Shaffer
President, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
Charles Smith
President and CEO, CountryMark Cooperative LLP
William Chameides
Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

Review of Recent Environmental Protection Agency Air Standards for Hydraulically Fractured Natural Gas Wells and Oil and Natural Gas Storage

Witnesses:
Panel 1
Gina McCarthy
Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

American Geosciences Institute

112th congress