Washington, D.C. - The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold two full committee hearings and one subcommittee hearing next week.
The full committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, July 19 at 2:30 p.m. in SD-366 to receive testimony regarding the effects of the U.S. nuclear testing program on the Marshall Islands.
Invited Witnesses Include:
Howard M. Krawitz
Acting Assistant Secretary
U.S. State Department
Thomas Lum
Specialist in Asian Affairs
Congressional Research Service
Gerald Zackios
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Neal A. Palafox MD MPH
Professor and Chair
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawaii
James H. Plasman
Chairman
Nuclear Claims Tribunal
Kiyohiko Mabuchi, M.D., Dr. P.H.
National Cancer Institute
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Steve Simon
Washington, DC
The public lands and forests subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, July 20 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 to receive testimony on S. 703, to provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway; S. 997, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge Forest, Montana, to Jefferson County, Montana, for use as a cemetery; S. 1131, to authorize the exchange of certain Federal land within the State of Idaho; S. 1170, to establish the Fort Stanton-Snowy River National Cave Conservation Area; S. 1238, to amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to provide for the conduct of projects that protect forests; and H.R. 1101, to revoke a Public Land Order with respect to certain lands erroneously included in the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, California.
Invited Witnesses Include:
Panel 1
Mr. Joel Holtrop
Deputy Chief
National Forest System
U.S. Forest Service
Mr. Larry Benna
Deputy Director
Bureau of Land Management
Panel 2
Ms. Penelope J. Boston
Director, Cave and Karst Studies Program
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
New Mexico Tech
Socorro, New Mexico
Mr. Keith Johnson
Controller
State of Idaho
Boise, Idaho
The full committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, July 21 at 10:00 a.m. in room SH-216 to receive testimony regarding the current state of climate change scientific research and the economics of strategies to manage climate change. Issues to be discussed include: the relationship between energy consumption and climate change, new developments in climate change research and the potential effects on the U.S. economy of climate change and strategies to control greenhouse gas emissions.
Invited Witnesses Include:
Panel 1: The State of Climate Science
Dr. Ralph Cicerone
President of the National Academy of Sciences
Chair of the National Research Council
Dr. Mario Molina
Professor of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Tim Killeen
Director
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sir John Houghton
Co-chair of the Scientific Assessment Working Group
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Panel 2: The Economics of Mandatory Controls
Dr. W. David Montgomery
CRA International
Jason Grumet
The National Commission on Energy Policy
Richard Morgenstern
Resources for the Future
Guy F. Caruso
Administrator
Energy Information Administration
