U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works
Hearing Statements
Date:   07/29/2003
 
Full committee hearing. Climate history, science, and health effects of mercury emissions.

July 29, 2003. Full committee hearing.

To examine climate history and its implications, and the science underlying fate, transport, and health effects of mercury emissions.

Tuesday, July 29, 2003
SD-406 (Hearing Room)
9:00 am
Opening Statements:
Sen. James M. Inhofe, of Oklahoma.
Sen. George V. Voinovich, of Ohio.
Sen. John Cornyn, of Texas.
Sen. Wayne Allard, of Colorado.
Sen. James M. Jeffords, of Vermont.
Witnesses:
Panel I: Climate history and its implications

Dr. David R. Legates
Director, Center for Climatic Research
University of Delaware

Dr. Michael E. Mann
Associate Professor
University of Virginia
Department of Environmental Sciences

Dr. Willie Soon
Astrophysicist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Panel II: The science underlying fate, transport, and health effects of mercury emissions

Dr. Leonard Levin
Program Manager
Electric Power Research Institute

Dr. Deborah C. Rice
Toxicologist
Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management
Maine Department of Environmental Protection

Dr. Gary Myers
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Department of Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center