Today, heavy industry contributes 24% of greenhouse gas emissions,
making it the largest source of climate pollution. Unlike other climate
sectors, the industrial sector does not have long-term power build
(yet).
Join Industrious Labs’ Field Building department to talk in depth about
industrial decarbonization and transformation. In this 90-min
interactive
webinar,
Industrious Labs’ Dominique Thomas and Lee Helfend will cover what
industrial decarbonization and transformation, what movement building
looks like and tangible examples at Industrious Labs.
Following this webinar:
Participants leave the webinar understanding industrial
decarbonization and why movement building is integral
Participants will learn more about movement building at Industrious
Labs and how they can get involved
Participants will met other folx interested in industrial
transformation and ways to stay engaged
All of these materials can now be produced using cleaner and greener
energy that drives good paying jobs, arrests climate change, and anchors
a healthy regenerative economy that helps local communities thrive. We
look forward to seeing
you!
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
The budget includes a $56.0M and 34 FTE
increase to support a variety of FEMA climate
resilience initiatives, including the Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk
Analysis Program, FEMA’s Building Codes
Strategy, Climate Adaptation, and Environmental Planning and Historical
Preservation process improvements.
Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International
Development
The State Department’s FY 2025 Request of $99
million for cross-cutting climate change programs includes an additional
$18 million over FY 2023 Actual to meet the vision and mandates laid out
by the Administration and Congress, as well as sustain a leadership role
for climate solutions on the global stage. (By way of comparison, the
programs for competition with China total $4 billion.)
On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. (ET) in 2128 Rayburn House
Office Building, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a
hearing
entitled: “Beyond Scope: How the SEC’s Climate
Rule Threatens American Markets.”
Elad Roisman, Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
LLP and former Commissioner and Acting
Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Robert Stebbins, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
LLP and former General Counsel of the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Chris Wright, Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Energy
Joshua T. White, Assistant Professor of Finance, Owen Graduate School
of Management, Vanderbilt University
Legislation
H. J. Res.
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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Securities and
Exchange Commission relating to “The Enhancement and Standardization
of Climate- Related Disclosures for Investors”
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 to
adopt an 886-page
rule
entitled “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related
Disclosures for Investors”. The rule changes existing disclosure
obligations for public companies. The rule imposes new obligations
including but not limited to scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (“GHG”)
emissions; climate-related risks; board oversight of climate risks;
management’s assessment and management of climate-related risks;
climate-related targets and goals; and financial statement effects of
certain climate related risks.
Omar Hammad, Environmental Policy Analyst, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress
William “Bill” Obermann, Air Program Supervisor, Department of Public
Health and Environment, City and County of Denver
Anne Austin, Former Trump Administration Principal Deputy Assistant
Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Austin Legal & Public
Affairs [Minority Witness]
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science
and Transportation, will convene a full committee
hearing on
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 10:00 AM EDT to
consider the following presidential renominations:
Nominees:
Jennifer Homendy, to be Chair of the National Transportation Safety
Board (PN1498, PN1499) (reappointment)
Patrick Fuchs, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board
(PN1372) (reappointment)
The National Transportation Safety
Board is an independent federal
agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation
accident in the United States and significant events in the other modes
of transportation—railroad, transit, highway, marine,
pipeline,
and commercial space.