Tuesday Morning Action outside the Capitol with Our Revolution in
coalition with Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Third Act, Our Future
WV, For All, and WV Coalition to End the Filibuster. We’ll be
gathering at 1st
and Maryland Avenue NE on the the Capitol side of 1st St.
Bill McKibben and representatives of front-line communities in West
Virgina and western Virginia will be speaking against Joe Manchin’s
Dirty Deal and the Mountain Valley Pipeline and how we can
STOP it!
World Bank President David Malpass refused to acknowledge the climate
crisis is here and it’s manmade – dodging the question and saying he’s
“not a scientist.”
Activists will set up a stage in front of the World Bank HQ in
Washington DC and read the entire IPCC report
over megaphones pointed at the building, with banners and placards
calling for his ouster.
WHO: Activists from The Climate Reality
Project, Friends of the Earth US, Glasgow Actions Team, front line
communities in West Virginia, Bill McKibben, and many, many, many more
(there’s a lot to read!)
WHAT: The Climate Science is Settled: Protest
to Fire Malpass
WHERE: Community Park outside World Bank
headquarters
Please join the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center virtually, on
Monday, September 26, from 4:00 – 5:00 pm ET for a
discussion
on the importance and role of a national green bank in accelerating an
equitable transition to a clean energy economy.
One of the many notable components of the Biden Administration’s
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the authorization of $27 billion to
establish the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. A national green bank would
have a mandate to finance clean energy and environmental justice
projects in every state. Through the bank, clean energy entrepreneurs
would leverage funding to advance clean energy initiatives and
infrastructure in their communities, while creating cleaner air and
good, local jobs. The bank would support projects where the problem is
not only the cost of financing, but also the availability of financing.
Low-income communities spend three times more of their income on energy
costs compared to non-low-income households. The national green bank
would help correct this imbalance and help ensure an equitable
transition to clean energy in all communities. It would provide billions
of dollars of low interest,100 percent up front financing and other
forms of financial support to reduce the burden of energy costs by
helping to ensure that low-income households and communities have the
funding to install clean energy projects while lowering their energy
costs.
Distributing the IRA funding through a
national green bank would have many advantages. The national green bank
could establish national standards for loans, develop credit enhancement
programs, and provide expertise and funding to state and local green
banks and Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) on
renewable energy projects. A national green bank could raise additional
funds to those provided in the IRA and through
interest on and repayment of loans.
During this panel discussion, experts will discuss opportunities for the
Biden Administration to successfully build a national green bank and
unlock investment to support an equitable and just clean energy future.
Keynote remarks by
Senator Chris van Hollen, Maryland
A conversation with
Will Barber III, Director of Climate and
Environmental Justice, The Climate Reality Project; Chief Consultant
of Environmental Justice and Equity, Coalition for Green Capital
Bryan Garcia, President & CEO, Connecticut
Green Bank
Reed Hundt, Founder & CEO, Coalition for
Green Capital
Cathie Mahon, President & CEO, Inclusiv
Moderated by
Ken Berlin, Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
The Committee on Natural Resources Office of Insular Affairs will hold a
hybrid oversight
hearing
on “PROMESA and LUMA Energy’s Contract.”
Scheduled for Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, in room
1324 Longworth House Office Building and via Cisco Webex, the hearing
has been postponed because of the catastrophic damage from Hurricane
Fiona.
The hearing will feature testimony from key stakeholders regarding the
implementation of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic
Stability Act (PROMESA) and discuss H.R.
7409
– TRUST for Puerto Rico Act to dissolve the
Oversight Board. The hearing will also examine
LUMA Energy’s contract to manage, operate, and
rebuild Puerto Rico’s electric power transmission and distribution
system.
Witnesses:
Panel I: PROMESA and H.R. 7409
Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico
José Luis Dalmau, President, Puerto Rico Senate
Rafael “Tatito” Hernández, Speaker, Puerto Rico House of
Representatives
David A. Skeel Jr, Chair, Financial Oversight and Management Board
Jessica E. Méndez-Colberg, Attorney, Bufete Emmanuelli, C.S.P.
The Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance will
hold a
hearing
entitled, “State of Emergency: Examining the Impact of Growing Wildfire
Risk on the Insurance Market” on September 22 at 9:00 am in room 2128 of
the Rayburn House Office Building and on the Webex platform.
H.R. 8483, the “Wildfire Insurance Coverage Study Act of 2022”
(Rep. Waters) would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct
studies assessing the danger that wildfires increasingly pose to
communities and how the market for homeowners’ insurance is responding
to this growing threat.
Witnesses:
Matthew Auer, Dean of the School of Public and International
Affairs, University of Georgia
Amy Bach, Executive Director, United Policyholders
Ricardo Lara, California Insurance Commissioner
Roy Wright, President & CEO of the
Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety
Rex Frazier, President, Personal Insurance Federation of
California
House Financial Services Committee
Housing, Community Development and Insurance Subcommittee
The purpose of this
hearing
is to receive testimony on the following bills:
S.J.
Res.57,
A joint resolution redesignating the Robert E. Lee Memorial in
Arlington National Cemetery as the “Arlington House National Historic
Site”;
S.
305, to
establish the Springfield Race Riot National Monument in the State of
Illinois, and for other purposes;
S.
1211,
to establish the Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture National
Historical Park in Collinsville, Illinois, Monroe, Madison, and St.
Clair Counties, Illinois, and St. Louis City County, Missouri, and for
other purposes;
S.
3447,
to authorize the National Service Animals Monument Corporation to
establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its
environs, and for other purposes;
S.
3579,
to authorize the Embassy of France in Washington, DC, to establish a
commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs to
honor the extraordinary contributions of Jean Monnet to restoring
peace between European nations and establishing the European Union,
and for other purposes;
S.
3873,
to designate the outdoor amphitheater at the Blue Ridge Music Center
in Galax, Virginia, as the “Rick Boucher Amphitheater”;
S.
4122,
to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments
of the Housatonic River in the State of Connecticut as components of
the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes;
S.
4168,
to amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National
Park Foundation;
S.
4222,
to establish the St. Croix National Heritage Area, and for other
purposes;
S.
4371,
to establish the César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement National
Historical Park in the States of California and Arizona, and for other
purposes;
S.
4377 /
H.R. 4380, to designate the El Paso Community Healing Garden National
Memorial, and for other purposes;
S.
4464/H.R.
1908, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to
assess the suitability and feasibility of designating certain land as
the Kaena Point National Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
S.
4693,
to amend the National Trails System Act to include national discovery
trails and designate the American Discovery Trail, and for other
purposes;
S.
4784,
to modify the boundary of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National
Monument in the State of Maine, to improve public access to the
National Monument, and for other purposes.
This
hearing
will provide an opportunity to discuss the partnership between the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the development, testing,
acquisition, launch and management of NOAA’s
operational weather satellite programs. Furthermore, this hearing will
examine how lessons learned from past challenges in recent weather
satellite programs are being incorporated into the future goals,
architecture, and capabilities for the next generation of weather
satellites.
Witnesses
Dr. Stephen Volz, Assistant Administrator, National Environmental
Satellite, Data, and Information Services,
NOAA
John Gagosian, Joint Agency Satellite Division Director,
NASA
Fred Meny, Assistant Inspector General for Audit and Evaluation, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General
