Washington, D.C. Celebration December 19, 2013......138th birthday of Dr. Carter G. Woodson,

FYI

Greetings,

The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University is pleased to be joining the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the National Parks Service in celebrating the 138^th birthday of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, founder of the Association, the Journal of Negro History (now the Journal of African American History), and the annual Black History Month commemoration.  Dr. Woodson founded the graduate program in History at Howard and served as Dean of its College of Arts and Sciences.  He has likely had a greater impact on the study of black history than any other single individual in the world.  This is to invite you to join us on December 19, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. for this annual celebration.

The event will be held at the historic Shiloh Baptist Church, 1500 9^th St. NW.  Dr. Gregory Carr, esteemed Director of the African American Studies Department at Howard, is the featured speaker.  I hope you will join me and the staff at Moorland as we celebrate the life and legacy of one of our most distinguished pioneers in the preservation, interpretation, and celebration  of black history and culture.

Sincerely,

Howard Dodson, Director

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Howard Dodson, Jr.

Howard Dodson Jr., Director, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center/Howard University Library System (HULS)

500 Howard Place NW, Room 203 Founders

Washington, DC 20059

(202) 806-7234; (202) 806-5903 fax

howard.dodson@howard.edu

December 6, 2013. Briefing on Shale Gas Debase (Fracking Process)

BRIEFING NOTICE

The Shale Gas Debate:
How Industry and Environmental Messages Stack Up

December 6, 2013
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
188 Russell Senate Office Building

Resources for the Future (RFF) invites you to a briefing on how messaging from the shale gas industry and environmental organizations affects the public’s attitudes toward shale gas development.

Recently, US Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell called upon industry to provide better information to the public about the fracking process. She said the public debate is “confused” and “not well-informed,” stating that industry is responsible for making sure “that the public understand what [fracking] is, how it’s done, and why it’s safe.” Industry has also recognized the need to raise the public’s comfort level, especially in states such as Colorado, where three cities recently approved bans or moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing. New research at RFF shows that industry will need to provide not just more information, but better information if it is to improve public confidence.

This briefing will examine survey results about the public’s level of concern regarding the potential environmental and health risks associated with shale gas development, and how much people value reducing such risks—how much they are willing to pay in increased taxes, utility bills, and so on to reduce those risks. The briefing will also show how different sources of information (industry and environmental) affect people’s attitudes and beliefs about shale gas development in their states.

This briefing is based on a new survey conducted by RFF researchers of a random sample of individuals in Pennsylvania, where residents are still adjusting to the boom in shale gas development and drilling in their state, and in Texas, where residents are more accustomed to these types of energy development activities.

Speakers for this briefing:

• Dr. Alan J. Krupnick, RFF Senior Fellow and Director of RFF’s Center for Energy Economics and Policy
• Dr. Juha V. Siikamäki, RFF Associate Research Director and Fellow

Watch Dr. Krupnick preview the results of this survey on E&E TV.

RSVP to Christine Tolentino at tolentino@rff.org. For questions, contact Shannon Wulf at wulf@rff.org.