The United States Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee holds a hearing on "Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's 2017-2022 OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) Oil and Gas Leasing Program" on Capitol Hill. Abigail Hopper, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Management; John Hopson Jr., Mayor of the City of Wainwright, Alaska; Donald Boesch, professor of marine science and president of the University of Maryland Center for Environment Science; James Knapp of the University of South Carolina's School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment; Athan Manuel,
director of the Sierra Club's Lands Protection Program; and Joseph Mason, chair of banking in the Louisiana State of University's E.J. Ourso College of Business, testify.