Browsing Tag 'NOAA'
Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by ESA’s Science Policy Analyst, Terence Houston.
Read more...
The second meeting of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling highlighted both deficiencies in the Obama Administration’s and British Petroleum’s handling of the spill, as well as methods to improve coordination between those two parties.
Participants in the hearing, which occurred August 25 in Washington, DC, sought to examine regulatory oversight issues in offshore drilling. One point of consensus between both commissioners and several of the panelists was that scientific input into the review process needed to be increased.
Read more... Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by ESA’s Science Policy Analyst, Terence Houston.
Read more...
Earlier this month at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Scientific Symposium at Louisiana State University (LSU), scientists emphasized the importance and urgency of consulting with researchers during the remediation of the Gulf of Mexico disaster. The meeting pulled together more than 200 attendees, including officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Read more...
Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by ESA’s Science Policy Analyst, Piper Corp.
Read more...