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