S. 3497, a bill to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require leases entered into under that Act to include a plan that describes the means and timeline for containment and termination of an ongoing discharge of oil, and for other purposes; S.
Witnesses
Panel 1- Scott Brown, U.S. Senate
- Ken Salazar, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Marilyn Heiman, Director, U.S. Arctic Program and Offshore Energy Reform Project, The Pew Environment Group
- David Welch, President, Stone Energy Corporation
MMS Reorganization
- Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior
- Michael R. Bromwich, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement
Policies to reduce oil consumption through the promotion of accelerated deployment of electric-drive vehicles, as proposed in S. 3495, the Promoting Electric Vehicles Act of 2010
Witnesses
Panel 1- David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy
- Frederick Smith, Chairman, President, and CEO, FedEx Corporation
- Kathryn Clay, Director of Research, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
- Brian Wynne, President, Electric Drive Transportation Association
- David Friedman, Research Director, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Alan Crane, Senior Program Officer, National Research Council
The Deepwater Horizon Incident: Are the Minerals Management Service Regulations Doing The Job?
Witnesses
Panel 1- Bob Abbey, Acting Director, Minerals Management Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Mary Kendall, Acting Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Frank Rusco, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Kenneth Abbott, Former Contractor, BP Atlantis
- Christopher Mann, Senior Officer, Pew Environment Group
- Alan Spackman, Vice President, Offshore Technical & Regulatory Affairs, International Association of Drilling Contractors
- Erik Milito, Group Director, Upstream and Industry Operations, American Petroleum Institute
- Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project on Government Oversight
- Steve Maley, Operations Manager, Badger Oil Corporation
The Role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill
- Tony Hayward, Chief Executive Officer, BP PLC
Harnessing Small Business Innovation: Navigating the Evaluation Process for Gulf Coast Oil Cleanup Proposals
Witnesses
Panel 1- Dr. Paul Anastas, Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Rear Admiral Ronald Rabago, Assistant Commandant for Acqusition & Chief Acquisition Officer, Acquisition Directorate, United States Coast Guard
- Heather Baird, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Microsorb Environmental Products, Inc.
- Kevin Costner, Partner, Ocean Therapy Solutions
- Dr. Carys Mitchelmore, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science
- Dan Parker, Founder and CEO, C.I. Agents
- Eric Smith, Associate Director, Energy Institute, Tulane University
Climate Change and Agriculture: Food and Farming in a Changing Climate (House briefing)
Agriculture will be one of the industries most affected by climate change. Changing rainfall patterns and intensities, air temperatures, and cropping seasons will require the development of new, adapted agricultural systems. On June 16th, experts on climate modeling, cropping systems, crop breeding, and agriculture and natural resource economics will present information about how agriculture can adapt to a changing climate.
Speakers- Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Dr. Cesar Izaurralde, Laboratory Fellow; Joint Global Change Research Institute
- Dr. Paul Gepts, Professor of Agronomy and Geneticist; U.C. Davis
- Dr. Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Agronomy, Council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.
For questions or to RSVP please contact Phillip Chalker at [email protected] or 202-326-6789.
Speaker BiographiesDr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is a co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change and co-led the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. She was a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report observed changes chapter, and served on the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenarios for Impact and Climate Assessment. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she joins impact models with climate models to predict future outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions. She is a Professor at Barnard College and a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia Earth Institute.
Dr. Cesar Izaurralde is a laboratory fellow at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a collaboration of the University of Maryland with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He is also an adjunct professor in the departments of Geography and the Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture. Dr. Izaurralde is a soil scientist with more than 30 years of research experience in agronomy, soil science, and ecosystem modeling. His current research focuses in the areas of modeling the impacts of climate change and variability on terrestrial ecosystems and water resources and carbon sequestration in and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils. Before joining PNNL in 1997, Dr. Izaurralde served as Chair of Resource Conservation in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta, Canada. In his native Argentina, he studied at and later joined the Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias at Universidad Nacional de Cardoba. Dr. Izaurralde is Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy.
Dr. Paul Gepts is professor of agronomy in the Department of Agronomy and Range Science at the University of California, Davis. His research and teaching program focuses on the evolution of plants under domestication and relies on a combination of genetic and genomic analyses, coupled with field work in centers of crop domestication, principally Latin America and Africa. Recent research conducted in Mexico has emphasized gene flow between wild and domesticated Phaseolus beans. He has taught courses on crop germplasm in Argentina and Italy, is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Agronomy, has published some 70 research papers and 40 review papers or book chapters, and has edited one book. Dr. Gepts was a member of an Ecological Society of America (ESA) task force that wrote an ESA position paper, Genetically Engineered Organisms and the Environment: Current Status and Recommendations. He co-authored a background chapter assessing the effects of transgenic maize on maize diversity in Mexico for the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation.
Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Nelson is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He is an agricultural economist with over 30 years of professional and research experience in the areas of agriculture, policy analysis, land use and climate change. As co-leader of IFPRI’s global change program, he is responsible for developing IFPRI’s research in climate change modeling and spatially explicit assessments of potential adaptation and mitigation programs and policies. His previous professional activities includes leading the drivers of ecosystem services efforts of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, undertaking research that combines biophysical and socioeconomic data in quantitative, spatially-explicit modeling of the determinants of land use change, and understanding the effects of agricultural, trade and macroeconomic policies on agriculture and land use. Before joining IFPRI, Dr. Nelson was a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1985-2008) and an Agricultural Development Council specialist at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1982.
Climate Change and Agriculture: Food and Farming in a Changing Climate (Senate briefing)
Agriculture will be one of the industries most affected by climate change. Changing rainfall patterns and intensities, air temperatures, and cropping seasons will require the development of new, adapted agricultural systems. On June 16th, experts on climate modeling, cropping systems, crop breeding, and agriculture and natural resource economics will present information about how agriculture can adapt to a changing climate.
Speakers- Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Dr. Cesar Izaurralde, Laboratory Fellow; Joint Global Change Research Institute
- Dr. Paul Gepts, Professor of Agronomy and Geneticist; U.C. Davis
- Dr. Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Agronomy, Council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.
For questions or to RSVP please contact Phillip Chalker at [email protected] or 202-326-6789.
Speaker BiographiesDr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is a co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change and co-led the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. She was a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report observed changes chapter, and served on the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenarios for Impact and Climate Assessment. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she joins impact models with climate models to predict future outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions. She is a Professor at Barnard College and a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia Earth Institute.
Dr. Cesar Izaurralde is a laboratory fellow at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a collaboration of the University of Maryland with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He is also an adjunct professor in the departments of Geography and the Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture. Dr. Izaurralde is a soil scientist with more than 30 years of research experience in agronomy, soil science, and ecosystem modeling. His current research focuses in the areas of modeling the impacts of climate change and variability on terrestrial ecosystems and water resources and carbon sequestration in and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils. Before joining PNNL in 1997, Dr. Izaurralde served as Chair of Resource Conservation in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta, Canada. In his native Argentina, he studied at and later joined the Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias at Universidad Nacional de Cardoba. Dr. Izaurralde is Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy.
Dr. Paul Gepts is professor of agronomy in the Department of Agronomy and Range Science at the University of California, Davis. His research and teaching program focuses on the evolution of plants under domestication and relies on a combination of genetic and genomic analyses, coupled with field work in centers of crop domestication, principally Latin America and Africa. Recent research conducted in Mexico has emphasized gene flow between wild and domesticated Phaseolus beans. He has taught courses on crop germplasm in Argentina and Italy, is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Agronomy, has published some 70 research papers and 40 review papers or book chapters, and has edited one book. Dr. Gepts was a member of an Ecological Society of America (ESA) task force that wrote an ESA position paper, Genetically Engineered Organisms and the Environment: Current Status and Recommendations. He co-authored a background chapter assessing the effects of transgenic maize on maize diversity in Mexico for the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation.
Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Nelson is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He is an agricultural economist with over 30 years of professional and research experience in the areas of agriculture, policy analysis, land use and climate change. As co-leader of IFPRI’s global change program, he is responsible for developing IFPRI’s research in climate change modeling and spatially explicit assessments of potential adaptation and mitigation programs and policies. His previous professional activities includes leading the drivers of ecosystem services efforts of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, undertaking research that combines biophysical and socioeconomic data in quantitative, spatially-explicit modeling of the determinants of land use change, and understanding the effects of agricultural, trade and macroeconomic policies on agriculture and land use. Before joining IFPRI, Dr. Nelson was a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1985-2008) and an Agricultural Development Council specialist at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1982.
Drilling Down on America’s Energy Future: Safety, Security, and Clean Energy
- Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil
- John Watson, chairman and CEO of Chevron
- James Mulva, chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips
- Lamar McKay, president and chairman of BP America
- Marvin Odum, president of Shell Oil
Tony Hayward, President of BP, may attend.