Hill Heat

Cleaning up heavy duty transportation is a critical climate solution and can help advance climate justice by improving air quality in frontline communities.

Opening Statement

• Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL)

Witnesses

• Ryan Popple (@rcpopple), President and CEO of Proterra, Inc. (@Proterra_Inc), a company that manufactures zero-emission battery-electric buses. Popple is a U.S. Army veteran and previously worked for Tesla Motors.
• Angelo Logan (@angeloseanlogan), Campaign Director of the Moving Forward Network (@The_MFN). Logan is the co-founder of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice and has worked with several coalitions focused on protecting public health and advancing environmental justice.
• Michelle Romero (@michelledreams2), National Director for Green for All (@GreenForAll). Romero leads Green for All’s work to create an inclusive green economy and shift resources from polluters to communities suffering from pollution.
• Tony Satterthwaite, President, Distribution Business at Cummins, Inc. (@Cummins). Cummins is a Fortune 500 engine manufacturing company and its distribution business employs more than 16,000 people globally.

Witnesses:

• Dr. Richard B. Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences and Associate of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University
• Dr. Robin E. Bell, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
• Dr. Twila A. Moon, Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center’s (NSIDC) Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
• Dr. Gabriel J. Wolkon, Research Scientist and Manager, Climate and Cryosphere Hazards Program, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Alaska Department of Natural Resources
• Dr. W. Tad Pfeffer, Fellow, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulde

H.R. 3068 (Rep. Keating), To establish an offshore wind career training grant program, and for other purposes. “Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunities Act”

Witnesses:

• Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Political Science; and Director of the Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University
• Solomon Hsiang, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
• J. Alfredo Gómez, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Government Accountability Office
• Oren Cass, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Panel 1

• William D. Magwood, Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
• Chris Levesque, Chief Executive Officer, TerraPower
• Bob Perciasepe, President, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions