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Don't forget -- E&E Forum tomorrow, Thursday, September 26, at 3.30 pm in Dougherty Engineering Room 416 (not Toyota Auditorium in Baker Center due to a scheduling conflict). James Shortle, Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, and Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Institute, at Penn State University will give a 45 minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. His talk is titled: “Towards a Science of Water Quality Trading” ------------------------ The talk by Lorna Greening has be rescheduled to Tuesday, October 8, 3:30 pm in the Toyota. "US Petroleum Renaissance: A Holistic View" In the 20 years following OPEC, the US oil and gas industry was significantly shaped by conflicting policies created in a chaotic, politically-charged environment. Those policies resulted in a drastic decline in activity in the industry, concerns about ‘energy independence’ and increases in imports to approximately 60% of US demand for crude by 2008. With the advent and wider-implementation of new exploration and production technologies, specifically horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, this picture has been altered. Come learn more from Dr. Lorna Greening, who is co-editor of "Energy Policy," an international peer-reviewed journal addressing the policy implications of energy supply and use from their economic, social, planning and environmental aspects. In addition to her responsibilities with the journal she is an economic consultant and researcher based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.