Calling all climate activists! Please join us for a unique virtual town
hall event with
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Representative Melanie Stansbury
(NM-01), moderated by Earthjustice President Abbie Dillen. We’ll talk
about record heat and what we can do about it. We’ll celebrate how all
the climate investments in the Inflation Reduction Act are speeding our
transition to clean energy, creating jobs, and lowering energy costs.
We’ll also spell out how we can all come together to Defend Our Climate
when the big polluters and their allies in Congress would take us
backward.
Full committee
hearing
to consider the following nominations.
Nominees:
Dennis B. Hankins, of Minnesota, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign
Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of
Haiti
James C. O’Brien, of Nebraska, to be an Assistant Secretary of State
(European and Eurasian Affairs)
Nathalie Rayes, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of
Croatia
On Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House
Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources will hold a
mark-up
on multiple bills.
The following bills will move by regular order:
H.R.
3675
(Rep. Boebert), “Western Water Accelerated Revenue Repayment Act”
(Amendments to H.R. 3675 must be drafted to the amendment in the
nature of a substitute, attached to this notice);
H.R.
4141
(Rep. Fulcher), To provide that certain communications projects are
not subject to requirements to prepare certain environmental or
historical preservation reviews, and for other purposes (Amendments to
H.R. 4141 must be drafted to the amendment in the nature of a
substitute, attached to this notice)
The following bills are expected to move by unanimous consent:
H.R. 1318 (Rep. Neguse), “Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location
Act”;
H.R. 2717 (Rep. Moore of Utah), “Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams National
Medal of Honor Monument Location Act”;
H.R. 2997 (Rep. Boebert), “Clifton Opportunities Now for Vibrant
Economic Yields Act” or “CONVEY Act”;
H.R. 3049 (Rep. Curtis), “Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands
Administration Exchange Act of 2023”;
H.R. 3499 (Rep. Issa), “Direct Hire to Fight Fires”; and
H.R.
4377
(Rep. Grijalva), To amend the Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1999
with respect to extensions, additions, and revisions to the Barry M.
Goldwater Range in Arizona.
S. 2395, Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver Reauthorization Act
S. 1381, Coastal Habitat Conservation Act of 2023
S. 1278, A bill to designate the federal building located at 985
Michigan Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, as the “Rosa Parks Federal
Building,” and for other purposes
Full committee
hearing
on the fiscal consequences of climate change on infrastructure.
Witnesses:
John Bel Edwards, Governor, Louisiana
Susan F. Tierney, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, Analysis Group
Dr. Jesse M. Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor Of Sustainable Real
Estate And Urban Planning, Tulane University
Linda Apsey, President And CEO, ITC Holdings
Corp., Ford Foundation Board of Trustees
Alexander Herrgott, President And CEO, The
Permitting Institute
ITC Holdings Corp. is the largest independent
electricity transmission company in the United States. Through its
regulated operating subsidiaries ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric
Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and
ITC Great Plains,
ITC owns and operates high-voltage
transmission infrastructure in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, and in development in Wisconsin.
The purpose of this
hearing
is to examine opportunities for Congress to reform the process for
permitting electric transmission lines, pipelines, and energy production
on federal lands.
Witnesses:
Panel I
Antonio P. Smyth, Executive Vice President – Grid Solutions &
Government Affairs, American Electric Power
Jason M. Stanek, Former Chairman, Maryland Public Service Commission
Chad A. Teply, Senior Vice President – Transmission & Gulf of Mexico,
Williams
Panel II
Erik G. Milito, President, National Ocean Industries Association
Pete Obermueller, President, Petroleum Association of Wyoming
Kelly Speakes-Backman, Executive Vice President – Public Affairs,
Invenergy
Learn how that same pipeline corporation is
STILL trying to punish those who dared speak
out against it – and how this “SLAPP” lawsuit affects
YOUR right to protest.
Join Greenpeace USA and the Protect the
Protest coalition for a town hall on protecting activists from abusive
lawsuits. Learn about
the frivolous lawsuit filed against Greenpeace
USA by Energy Transfer, the company behind the
Dakota Access pipeline, for allegedly orchestrating the entire
resistance movement at Standing Rock.
It isn’t just Greenpeace USA’s future that’s
at stake, this is an existential threat to the social justice movement
writ large. These lawsuits are attempts to intimidate any organization
or individual who dares to speak out against bad corporate practices
that threaten the environment, people’s livelihoods or human rights.
Join the movement to protect the right to dissent. Register
here for the first
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED: Virtual Town Hall on
Protecting Our Right to Protest and Dissent
When:
July 25, 2023 – 5 pm PST / 7 pm CT / 8 pm
EST
Speakers:
Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)
Greenpeace USA Deputy General Counsel, Deepa
Padmanabha
Senior Policy Advisor, EarthRights International/Protect the Protest
Coalition, Kirk Herbertson
Ben and Jerry’s Activism Manager, Chris Miller E* sther Calhoun,
Founder and former president, Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health
and Justice
Cosponsors:
Protect the Protest coalition
Center for Biological Diversity
Physicians for Social Responsibility – Pennsylvania
