U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation, will convene a full committee nominations
hearing
on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET to consider nominations
for the Amtrak Board of Directors and the National Transportation Safety
Board.
Nominees:
Joel Matthew
Szabat
to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors (PN13)
There will be a
hearing
of the Committee on the Budget on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, 10:00 AM in
Room SD-608 to consider: “Dollars and Degrees: Investigating Fossil Fuel
Dark Money’s Systemic Threats to Climate and the Federal Budget.”
Subcommittee
hearing
titled “Clearing the Air: Examining the Environmental Protection
Agency’s Proposed Emissions Standards”
Witness:
Joseph
Goffman,
Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation
(OAR), Environmental Protection Agency
In April, EPA announced proposed pollution
standards
for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles, for model year 2027 and
beyond. The proposed standards align with commitments already made by
automakers and commercial vehicle manufacturers as they plan to
accelerate clean vehicle technologies in the on-road vehicle fleet over
the next 5 to 10 years. Consistent with EPA’s
traditional approach to establishing pollution standards under the Clean
Air Act, these proposals would deliver dramatic improvements in public
health, notable savings for consumers and commercial fleets, and
increased energy security for Americans. They would help American
workers lead in the jobs and industries of tomorrow. If finalized, these
proposals would mark a significant step towards improving air quality,
protecting people’s health, and addressing the climate crisis.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee
In the face of climate change, technological innovation, and global
strategic competition, the U.S. Coast Guard will need to respond to many
developments in the maritime domain over the next decade. The Coast
Guard likely has sufficient statutory authority to respond to most of
these developments, but some developments may call for new or clarified
statutory authority as well as coordination with international bodies.
Witnesses:
Admiral Steve
Poulin,
Vice Commandant, United States Coast Guard
Dr. Cary
Coglianese,
Ph.D., Chair, Committee for a Study on New Coast Guard Authorities,
National Academy of Sciences
Heather
MacLeod,
Director, Homeland Security and Justice, United States Government
Accountability Office
Opening remarks, as prepared, of Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
Subcommittee Chairman Daniel Webster (R-FL) from today’s hearing,
entitled “Review of the National Academy of Sciences Report ‘The Coast
Guard’s Next Decade: An Assessment of Emerging Challenges and Statutory
Needs’”:
Today, our Subcommittee will receive testimony on the National Academy
of Sciences Report entitled “The Coast Guard’s Next Decade: An
Assessment of Emerging Challenges and Statutory Needs’.”
I’d like to welcome our distinguished witnesses – Admiral Steve Poulin,
Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard; Dr. Cary Coglianese, Chair of the
National Academy of Sciences panel that authored the study; and Heather
MacLeod, Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government
Accountability Office (GAO).
The Elijah E. Cummings Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2020 directed
the Coast Guard to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of
Sciences to assess the emerging issues that will require Coast Guard
action over the next decade and provide recommendations on what
adjustments will be needed to support the Coast Guard’s efforts to
confront these issues.
The National Academy of Sciences consulted with current and former
members of the Coast Guard, industry stakeholders, and others to develop
the conclusions outlined in the report, which was delivered to the
Committee last month. Dr. Coglianese, I want to thank you and the other
authors of the study for your diligent work.
Over the next decade, several external factors, including the advent of
new technologies such as autonomous marine systems and global strategic
competition—driven largely by China’s aggressive posture in the
Pacific—will challenge the Coast Guard’s capabilities and require the
Service to adapt to a changing mission set.
While the study found that the Coast Guard’s current authorities are
sufficient to confront most of these challenges, Congress will need to
continuously monitor the statutory authorities necessary for the Service
to carry out its missions — particularly with regard to autonomous
systems and the regulation of maritime safety zones for space flights
and other emerging uses of the maritime domain.
As the Coast Guard confronts these new challenges, it must recognize
that as mission demand grows, it must be realistic about the necessary
assets, infrastructure, and workforce needed to carry out its mission.
It goes without saying that with growing manpower shortages, an
increasing shoreside infrastructure backlog, and a completely defective
procurement process, the Coast Guard has a lot of work to do in order to
meet the increasing mission demands the Service will see over the next
decade.
To all our witnesses—thank you for participating today. I look forward
to a candid discussion on how the Coast Guard will confront this
changing landscape.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee
Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Chair Jeff Duncan
(R-S.C.) is holding a field
hearing
in Moore County, North Carolina, titled “Enhancing America’s Grid
Security and Resilience.”
On Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 10:00 AM ET,
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chair of the Senate Environment and
Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management,
Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight, will hold a
hearing
to examine the public health and environmental impacts of plastic
production and disposal on environmental justice communities.
Witnesses:
Angelle Bradford, Doctoral student in physiology and medicine at
Tulane University School of Medicine, Volunteer, Sierra Club Delta
Chapter
Sharon Lavigne, Founder, Rise St. James
Chris Tandazo, Director of Government Affairs, New Jersey
Environmental Justice Alliance
Kevin Sunday, Director of Government Affairs, Pennsylvania Chamber of
Business and Industry
Donna Jackson, Director of Membership Development, Project 21 –
National Center for Public Policy and Research
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight Subcommittee
The Committee on Natural Resources will hold a legislative hearing on
H.R. 3397 (Rep. Curtis), to require the Director of the Bureau of Land
Management to withdraw a rule of the Bureau of Land Management relating
to conservation and landscape health, on Thursday, June 15 at 9:00 a.m.
in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building.
Panel III (Administration and Non-Government
Outside Witnesses):
Nada Wolff Culver, Principal Deputy Director, Bureau of Land
Management
Kathleen Sgamma, President, Western Energy Alliance
Kathy Chandler-Henry, Board Chair, Eagle County Board of
Commissioners, Eagle, Colorado
On April 3, 2023, the BLM published in the
Federal Register a proposed rule, “Conservation and Landscape
Health,”
(“Rule”) with a 75-day comment period. The Rule would broadly allow the
BLM to lease lands under new conservation
leases, incorporate new standards when evaluating traditional multiple
use decisions, expedite designations of new Areas of Critical
Environmental Concern (ACECs), and apply land health standards to all
public lands.
For the first time since 2019, the League of Conservation Voters is
pleased to invite you to our annual Capital Dinner on Wednesday, June
14, 2023, in Washington, DC, at the Anthem at the
Wharf.
On Wednesday, June 14, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) will host
its annual Capital Dinner (our first since 2019) featuring President Joe
Biden and honoring Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi with the lifetime
achievement award. This year, the dinner will focus on celebrating
climate victories and honoring climate champions. We’re expecting a
number of members of Congress, among others.
Since we last held this dinner, we have helped elect the most
pro-environment president in American history, deliver truly historic
legislation on climate action that will shape our country for decades to
come, and fought for solutions to the point that 40% of people in the
United States now live in a place that is committed to 100% clean
energy.
Let’s come together to celebrate these incredible successes, remain
diligent and committed to this work, and ensure that we leave a livable
planet for ourselves and future generations. Our earth is worth fighting
for.
President’s Circle – $100,000
Two premier tables at the dinner (20 seats)
20 tickets to the President’s Circle Cocktail Reception
Premier listing on the LCV Capital Dinner
website and event signage
Premier inclusion in sponsor recognition slideshow shown at event
Membership in the Environmental Majority Council
Climate Victory Circle – $50,000
Two premier tables at the dinner (20 seats)
10 tickets to the President’s Circle Cocktail Reception, 10 tickets to
the Capital Cocktail Reception
Premier listing on the LCV Capital Dinner
website and event signage
Premier inclusion in sponsor recognition slideshow shown at event
Membership in the Environmental Majority Council
Green Sponsor – $25,000
One premier table at the dinner (10 seats)
4 tickets to the President’s Circle Cocktail Reception, 6 tickets to
the Capital Cocktail Reception
Premier listing on the LCV Capital Dinner
website and event signage
Inclusion in sponsor recognition slideshow shown at event
Membership in the Environmental Majority Council
Gold Sponsor – $12,500
One premier table at the dinner (10 seats) 2 tickets to the
President’s Circle * Reception, 8 tickets to the Capital Cocktail
Reception
Premier listing on the LCV Capital Dinner
website and event signage
Inclusion in sponsor recognition slideshow shown at event
Membership in the Environmental Majority Council
Silver Sponsor – $7,500
One table at the dinner (10 seats)
10 tickets to the Capital Cocktail Reception
Listing on the LCV Capital Dinner website
and event signage
Inclusion in sponsor recognition slideshow shown at event
Membership in the Environmental Majority Council
Bronze Sponsor – $2,500
2 tickets to the dinner
2 tickets to the Capital Cocktail Reception
Listing on the LCV Capital Dinner website
and event signage
Membership in the Environmental Majority Council
Environmental Majority Council Renewal – $1,000
1 ticket to the dinner
1 ticket to the Capital Cocktail Reception Membership in the
Environmental Majority Council
The League of Conservation Voters is hosting an event with President
Biden.
We will show up, too. It is an outrage that an “environmental”
organization would honor the President days after he approved a
pipeline. We cannot accept this. And we won’t.
10 days ago, President Biden signed into law the Mountain Valley
Pipeline, which could transport 2,000,000,000 cubic-feet-per-day of
fracked gas.
This was not a compromise.
This was a crime.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline would have the climate impact of adding
19,000,000 cars to the road. What the fuck? As it is, people in both the
economic and financial capitals of this nation are chocking on the air.
It. Gets. Worse. The President also greenlit the Willow Project. This
would carry 180,000 barrels of oil per day. We need to cut emissions in
half by 2030. It would only START pumping oil
close to 2030. This is a death sentence for us.
It got zero attention (maybe because the media keeps taking fossil fuel
money) but right after Willow, the President
ALSO approved the Alaska
LNG Project, which, somehow, would cause
MORE climate damage than Willow.
We believe the League of Conservation Voters is well-intended but
honoring a President who has done a mediocre job on climate and
backstabbed us on too many occasions to count is poor strategy. He will
not fear our movement if he knows we will brown-nose no matter how many
fossil fuel projects he approves.
Don’t just like. Don’t just share. We need you to join us
in-person.
We wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t important.
Protesting at an event hosted by another environmental group is
uncomfortable. But dammit we didn’t start this group to go along and get
along. We did so because we need to stand up and fight. And we will do
so even when it is uncomfortable. That is a promise.
Start: Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 4:45 PM
Location: The Anthem, 901 Wharf St SW, Washington,
DC 20024 US
The Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a legislative
hearing
on H.R. 2685 (Rep. Owens), “Mining Schools Act of 2023”; H.R. 3883 (Rep.
Amodei), To nullify Public Land Order No. 7921, withdrawing certain land
in the Railroad Valley of Nye County, Nevada, from mineral entry; and a
Discussion Draft of H.R. ___ (Rep. LaHood), the “Community
Reclamation Partnerships Act”, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at 2:15 p.m.
in 1334 Longworth House Office Building.
This
hearing
will consider three bills related to different aspects and needs of the
domestic mining sector.
H.R. 2685 (Rep. Owens), the “Mining Schools Act of 2023”, would create
a grant program for mining schools to support educational programs in
mining and related fields. • H.R. ___ (Rep. LaHood), the
“Community Reclamation Partnerships Act”, would allow non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) to help in the remediation of abandoned mine land
sites
H.R. 3883 (Rep. Amodei) would nullify an administrative withdrawal of
nearly 23,000 acres from mineral development in Nye County, Nevada.
Witnesses
Panel I:
Mark Amodei, Representative, Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District
Burgess Owens, Representative, Utah’s 4th Congressional District
Darin LaHood, Representative, Illinois’s 16th Congressional District
Panel II:
Walter G. Copan, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Technology
Transfer, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Christopher Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer, Trout
Unlimited
Kevin Moore, Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, 3 Proton Lithium
(3PL), Carson City, NV
Emily Hammond, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Glen Earl Weston
Research Professor, George Washington University School of Law
(Democratic witness)
