Join Jane Fonda in Washington, D.C. for Fire Drill Fridays’ first
in-person rally in
almost three years! This Friday, activists, community advocates,
environmentalists, and celebrities will come together in the Capitol to
call attention to the growing climate crisis and to demand that Congress
reject Senator Joe Manchin’s “Dirty Deal” and that President Joe Biden
declare a climate emergency.
Jane will be accompanied by a number of speakers, including activists
Jerome Foster, the youngest member of the White House Environmental
Justice Advisory Council, Roishetta Ozane, Organizing Director of
Southwest Louisiana/Southeast TX for Healthy Gulf, and Maria
Lopez-Nunez, Deputy Director of Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC),
as well as Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Representative Raúl
Grijalva (D-Ariz.).
Since going virtual in 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, Fire Drill Fridays has
reached more than 11 million viewers. Washington, D.C. is the first of
several cities Fire Drill Fridays plans to visit in the coming year. In
2023, it will host rallies in the Gulf Coast and California, areas of
the United States already seeing the visceral changes brought on by the
climate crisis – and whose communities are among the most impacted.
U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Chair of the Subcommittee on
Space and Science, will convene a subcommittee
hearing
titled “Landsat at 50 & the Future of U.S. Satellite-based Earth
Observation” at 10:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, December 1, 2022. This
subcommittee hearing will highlight critical Earth Observation (EO) data
provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the United
States Geological Survey (USGS), which recently celebrated Landsat’s
50th Anniversary. The hearing will also discuss the rise of commercial
providers and improving access to EO data to spur economic growth.
Finally, the hearing will highlight EO value-added services enabling
precision agriculture, improved city planning, water management,
wildland fire prevention and detection, and disaster response.
Witnesses:
Steve Volz, Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information
Services and Acting Assistant Secretary for Environmental Observation
and Prediction, NOAA
Kate Calvin, Chief Scientist, NASA Daniel
Jablonsky, President and Chief Executive Officer, Maxar Technologies
Kevin Gallagher, Associate Director, Core Science Systems,
USGS
Waleed Abdalati, Director, Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
The
hearing
will be held on Thursday, December 1, 2022, at 10:00 am in Room SD-366
of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. The purpose of
this hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills:
S.
3112,
to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish a Hydrogen
Technologies for Heavy Industry Grant Program, and for other purposes
(Hydrogen for Industry Act of 2021);
S.
3152,
to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to disqualify certain borrowers
from receiving a guarantee for a project, and for other purposes;
S.
3915,
to require the Secretary of Energy to provide technology grants to
strengthen domestic mining education, and for other purposes (Mining
Schools Act of 2022);
S.
3957,
to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain
activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation
Fund, and for other purposes (STREAM Act); This bill allows a state to
set aside up to 30% of its annual grant for abandoned mine reclamation
provided under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the
treatment and abatement of acid mine drainage, which is the release of
acidic water from abandoned coal mines.
S.
3978,
to require the Secretary of Energy to carry out a program to operate a
uranium reserve consisting of uranium produced and converted in the
United States and a program to ensure the availability of uranium
produced, converted, and enriched in the United States, and for other
purposes (NO RUSSIA Act of 2022);
S.
4420,
to provide for advancements in carbon removal research,
quantification, and commercialization, including by harnessing natural
processes, and for other purposes (CREST Act of 2022);
S.
4424,
to amend the Recreation and Public Purposes Act to authorize sales and
leases of certain Federal land to federally recognized Indian Tribes,
and for other purposes (Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity
Act);
S.
4515,
to require the Secretary of Energy to stipulate, as a condition on the
sale at auction of any crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,
that the crude oil not be exported to certain countries, and for other
purposes (No Emergency Crude Oil for Foreign Adversaries Act);
S.
4542,
to establish the Dolores River National Conservation Area and the
Dolores River Special Management Area in the State of Colorado, to
protect private water rights in the State, and for other purposes
(Dolores River National Conservation Area and Special Management Area
Act);
S.
4579,
to amend the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2015, to extend certain deadlines applicable to
pilot projects to increase Colorado River System water to address
effects of historic drought conditions, and for other purposes
(Colorado River Basin Conservation Act);
S.
4651,
to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the
Secretary of Energy to stipulate, as a condition on the sale at
auction of any petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve, that the petroleum products not be exported to certain
countries, to prohibit such sales to certain state-owned entities, and
for other purposes;
S.
4732,
to authorize the Georgetown African American Historic Landmark Project
and Tour to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia
and its environs, and for other purposes (Enslaved Voyages Memorial
Act);
S.
4860,
to provide for the establishment of a grazing management program on
Federal land in Malheur County, Oregon, and for other purposes
(Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owhyee Act);
S.
4995,
to require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the
Interior to prioritize the completion of the Continental Divide
National Scenic Trail, and for other purposes (Continental Divide
Trail Completion Act);
S.
5129,
to modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State
of Kentucky;
S.___,
discussion draft to establish a new organization to manage nuclear
waste, provide a consensual process for siting nuclear waste
facilities, ensure adequate funding for managing nuclear water, and
for other purposes (Nuclear Waste Administration Act); and
S.J. Res.
62,
approving the location of a memorial to commemorate the commitment of
the United States to a free press by honoring journalists who
sacrificed their lives in service to that cause.
Witnesses:
Kathryn Huff, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department
of Energy
Nada Wolff Culver, Deputy Director, Policy & Programs, Bureau of Land
Management, U.S. Department of the Interior
Doug MacIntyre, Deputy Director for the Office of Petroleum Reserves,
U.S. Department of Energy
The
hearing
will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2022, at 11:00 am in Room 366 of
the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.
The purpose of the hearing is to consider the nominations of:
David Crane to be Under Secretary of Energy (Infrastructure);
Jeffrey M. Marootian to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy); and
Gene Rodrigues to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Electricity
Delivery and Energy Reliability).
David Crane is the presently the
Director of the Office of
Clean Energy
Demonstrations,
established in December 2021 as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law. Previously Crane was the CEO of Climate
Real Impact Solutions and served on the boards of Heliogen Inc., Source
Global, JERA Co. Inc., and Tata Steel Ltd.
along with the not-for-profits Elemental Excelerator and The Climate
Group NA. Prior to Climate Real Impact Solutions, Crane was
CEO of the gas and coal dependent
utility NRG.
Jeff Marootian is the Senior Advisor for Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy in the
Office of the Secretary. Marootian previously served as a Special
Assistant to the President in the White House Office of Presidential
Personnel.
Marootian previously served in District of Columbia government as the
Director of the District Department of Transportation, where he piloted
sustainable transportation technologies, oversaw the effort to electrify
the city’s Circulator bus fleet, and led the city’s early adoption of
the Transportation and Climate Initiative.
Gene
Rodrigues
is a Vice President in the Energy, Environment and Infrastructure
practice at ICF, a global advisory and digital
services provider. Prior to joining ICF,
Rodrigues garnered 23 years of industry experience at Southern
California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities.
During his tenure at SCE, he represented the
company in regulatory proceedings and held leadership positions over the
company’s portfolio of demand-side management programs and policies,
which helped to ensure the provision of affordable, reliable, and
resilient electric service for over 15 million people in Southern
California.
On Thursday, November 17, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, in room 1324 Longworth
House Office Building and via Cisco Webex, the Committee on Natural
Resources Office of Insular Affairs will hold a hybrid oversight
hearing
on “Puerto Rico’s Post-Disaster Reconstruction & Power Grid
Development.”
The Committee will receive testimony from key stakeholders regarding
federal and local post-disaster reconstruction efforts in Puerto Rico
following recent natural disasters, including Hurricanes Irma, Maria,
and Fiona, and the 2020 earthquakes. The hearing will also examine the
restoration and modernization of Puerto Rico’s power grid.
Join Jane Fonda in Washington, D.C. for Fire Drill Fridays’ first
in-person rally in
almost three years! This Friday, activists, community advocates,
environmentalists, and celebrities will come together in the Capitol to
call attention to the growing climate crisis and to demand that Congress
reject Senator Joe Manchin’s “Dirty Deal” and that President Joe Biden
declare a climate emergency.