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Participants:

• Richard Chalyee Éesh Peterson, President, Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau, AK
• Mahina Paishon-Duarte, Co-Founder, ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures, Honolulu, HI
• Kelsey Scott, Director of Programs, Intertribal Agriculture Council, Gettysburg, SD
• Ryan Lankford, Chairman, Montana State FSA Committee and Island Mountain Development Group, Chinook, MT
• Dave Zeller, Chief Executive Officer, Navajo Agricultural Products Industry, Farmington, NM
• Trenton Kissee, Director, Agriculture and Natural Resources for Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Claremore, OK
• Mary Greene Trottier, President, National Association of Food Distribution Programs on Indian Reservations, Fort Totten, ND
• Dustin Schmidt, Producer, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, White River, SD

03/22/2023 at 02:30PM

On World Water Day, Wednesday, March 22, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern at the House Triangle, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) will be joined by Vice Ranking Member Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.), Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and environmental justice leaders for a press conference to announce introduction of the newly named A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice for All Act. Ranking Member Grijalva will also announce Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) as the new lead cosponsor of the House bill.

The press conference will highlight key provisions of the A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice for All Act, the most comprehensive federal environmental justice legislation to date. Environmental justice leaders will also be in attendance to speak to the impacts of environmental injustices on their communities and the pressing need for federal legislative action.

After the press conference, speakers and additional environmental justice community leaders will be available to press to discuss the legislation and its impact in more detail.

Speakers:

• Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, 7th District of Arizona, Ranking Member, U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources
• Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, 37th District of California, Vice Ranking Member, U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources
• U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, State of Illinois
• U.S. Senator Cory Booker, State of New Jersey
• Faith Harris, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light
• Elise Joshi, Gen-Z for Change

Community environmental justice leaders available for interview post-press conference:

• Russell Armstrong, Hip Hop Caucus
• Dana Johnson, WeAct
• Angelo Logan, Liberty Hill Foundation
• Jo & Joy Banner, The Descendants Project
• Michele Roberts, Environmental Justice Health Alliance 
• Rudy Arredondo, National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association
• Mark Magaña, Green Latinos, Founding President & CEO

03/22/2023 at 11:30AM

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Witness:

• Michael Regan, Adminstrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Statement by Administrator Regan on the President’s FY 2024 Budget:

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2024 to the Congress. The Budget requests over $12 billion in discretionary budget authority for the EPA in 2024, a $1.9 billion or 19-percent increase from the fiscal year 2023 enacted level. EPA will release the full Congressional Justification and Budget in Brief materials soon.

The President’s Budget makes historic investments to support the Agency’s ongoing work to tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, protect air quality across the nation, invest in critical water infrastructure and increase support for our state and Tribal partners in their efforts to implement environmental laws, and continue to rebuild core functions at the Agency.

“EPA is at the center of President Biden’s ambitious environmental agenda and the FY 2024 Budget will ensure the Agency delivers bold environmental actions and economic benefits for all. Coupled with the President’s historic investments in America through significant legislative accomplishments, the Budget will advance EPA’s mission across the board, boosting everything from our efforts to combat climate change, to delivering clean air, safe water, and healthy lands, to protecting communities from harmful chemicals, and to the continued restoration of capacity necessary to effectively implement these programs,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “Importantly, the Budget also supports our work to center environmental justice across all of the Agency’s programs, ensuring that no family, especially those living in overburdened and underserved areas, has to worry about the air they breathe, the water they drink, or the environmental safety of their communities.”

Highlights of the President’s FY 2024 Budget include:

Tackling the Climate Crisis with Urgency. The EPA’s Budget prioritizes combatting climate change with the urgency that science demands. The Budget includes $5 billion, a $757 million increase over the 2023 enacted level, to support work reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, building resilience in the face of climate impacts, and engaging with the global community to respond to this shared challenge, while also providing resources to spur economic progress and create good-paying jobs. The Budget proposes a $64.4 million increase over the 2023 enacted budget to implement the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act to continue phasing out potent GHGs known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). It also invests $7 million in wildfire smoke preparedness.

Advancing Environmental Justice. The Budget bolsters the Agency’s efforts to achieve environmental justice in communities across the Nation by investing nearly $1.8 billion across numerous programs in support of environmental justice efforts. This investment supports the implementation of the President’s Justice40 commitment, which ensures at least 40 percent of the benefits of Federal investments in climate and clean energy, as well as infrastructure work such as Superfund, Brownfields, and SRFs, reach disadvantaged communities, including rural and Tribal communities. Additionally, this Budget will support activities creating good-paying jobs, cleaning up pollution, advancing equity, and securing environmental justice for communities that often bear the brunt of toxic pollution and impacts of climate change. The Budget also includes $91 million for technical assistance to support capacity building for communities to advance equity and justice.

Upgrading Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure and Replacing Lead Pipes Nationwide. The Budget provides more than $4 billion for water infrastructure, an increase of $1 billion over the 2023 enacted level. These resources foster water infrastructure upgrades, with a focus on underserved and rural communities that have historically been overlooked. The Budget funds all authorizations in the original Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 and maintains funding for EPA’s State Revolving Funds at the total 2023 enacted level, which complements funds provided for water infrastructure programs in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Budget also provides $219 million for two grant programs dedicated to reducing lead in drinking water and lead testing in schools (an increase of $163 million over the 2023 enacted level). It also funds other grants and loans to advance the goal of replacing all lead pipes. Ensuring Clean and Healthy Air for All Communities. The Budget allocates $1.4 billion to improve air quality and reduce localized pollution, reduce exposure to radiation, and improve indoor air for communities across the country. This includes $180 million to support the development and implementation of national emission standards to reduce air pollution from vehicles, engines and fuels. The Budget also supports $367 million to assist air pollution control agencies in the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and to establish standards for reducing air toxics.

Protecting Communities from Hazardous Waste and Environmental Damage. The prevention and cleanup of harmful environmental damage that poses a risk to public health and safety continues to be a top priority for EPA. In addition to an estimated $2.5 billion in Superfund tax revenue that will be available to EPA in 2024, the Budget provides over $350 million for the Superfund program to continue cleaning up some of the Nation’s most contaminated land and respond to environmental emergencies and natural disasters. The Budget also provides over $215 million for EPA’s Brownfields program to provide technical assistance and grants to communities, including overburdened and underserved communities, so they can safely clean up and reuse contaminated properties, as well as $20 million for the Alaska Contaminated Lands program. These programs support the President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative by reducing human exposure to harmful contaminants that are correlated with an increased risk for cancer.

Ensuring Safety of Chemicals for People and the Environment. The Budget provides an investment of $130 million, $49 million more than the 2023 enacted level to build core capacity to implement the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Under TSCA, EPA has a responsibility to ensure the safety of chemicals in or entering commerce. In FY 2024, EPA will focus on evaluating, assessing, and managing risks from exposure to new and existing industrial chemicals to advance human health protection in our communities. Another priority is to implement FIFRA to ensure pesticides pose no unreasonable risks to human health and the environment.

Tackling Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Pollution. The Budget provides approximately $170 million to combat PFAS pollution. PFAS substances are a group of chemicals that threaten the health and safety of all communities. This request allows the EPA to continue working toward commitments made under EPA’s 2021 PFAS Strategic Roadmap, including: increasing our knowledge of PFAS impacts to human health and ecological effects, restricting use to prevent PFAS from entering the air, land, and water, and remediating PFAS that have been released into the environment.

Enforcing and Assuring Compliance with the Nation’s Environmental Laws. The Budget provides $246 million for civil enforcement efforts, crucial funding for enforcement in communities with high pollution exposure, and for preventing the illegal importation and use of climate super-pollutant HFCs in the United States. The Budget also includes: $165 million for compliance monitoring efforts, including funds to conduct inspections in underserved and overburdened communities, and funds to rebuild the agency’s inspector corps; and $75 million for criminal enforcement efforts, which includes funding to increase outreach to victims of environmental crimes and develop a specialized criminal enforcement task force to address environmental justice issues in partnership with the Department of Justice. Restoring Critical Capacity to Carry Out EPA’s Core Mission. To position the Agency with the workforce required to address emerging and ongoing challenges, the Budget added nearly 2,000 Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) relative to the current level, for a total of more than 17,000 FTEs, to help rebuild the Agency’s workforce. Developing staffing capacity across the Agency would enable EPA to better protect our Nation’s health, while also providing avenues to strengthen and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Staffing resources would additionally fund a significant expansion of EPA’s paid student internship program to develop a pipeline of qualified staff.

The Budget makes these smart investments to address emerging and ongoing environmental challenges while creating good-paying jobs and improving our country’s long-term fiscal outlook.

Building on the President’s strong record of fiscal responsibility, the Budget more than fully pays for its investments — reducing deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade by asking the wealthy and big corporations to pay their fair share.

03/22/2023 at 10:00AM

The Budget Committee is holding a hearing on how the climate crisis is making insurance more expensive and harder to find.

Witnesses:

• Eric Anderson, President, Aon
• Nancy Watkins, Principal Consulting Actuary, Milliman
• Dr. Benjamin Keys, Professor Of Real Estate, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Dr. Judith Curry, President And Co-Founder, Climate Forecast Applications Network (GOP witness)
• Jerry Theodorou, Director, Finance, Insurance, and Trade, R Street Institute (GOP witness)

03/22/2023 at 10:00AM

This a roundtable of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

Participant List:

• Nina Albert, Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration (GSA)
• David Marroni, Acting Director, Physical Infrastructure, Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Michael Capuano, Public Buildings Reform Board
• David L. Winstead, Public Buildings Reform Board
• Derrick Mashore, Senior Vice President, Advisory and Transaction Services, CBRE
• Chad Habeeb, Principal, Director of Leasing, FD Stonewater, LLC
• Kay Sargent, Director of WorkPlace, HOK
• Timothy O. Horne, EVP, Portfolio Management, Head of Denver Office, Boyd Watterson Asset Management, LLC

03/22/2023 at 10:00AM

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Presiding: Chair Merkley

Witness:

• Randy Moore, Chief, U.S. Forest Service

• US Forest Service Congressional Budget Justification: $9.7 billion. The 2024 Budget dedicates $323 million toward management for “hazardous fuels reduction”, an increase of $116 million from the 2023 enacted level. The 2024 Budget request for workforce salaries and expenses is $1.42 billion, a $509 million increase above the 2023 enacted level to fund the costs of pay reforms for Federal wildland firefighters and increase Federal firefighting capacity.

03/22/2023 at 10:00AM

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Presiding: Chair Coons

Witness:

• Antony J. Blinken, Secretary, U.S. Department of State

• Congressional Budget Justification: $63.1 billion for the Department of State and USAID

This includes:

• $800 million in ESF for the State Department to provide to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
• $425 million for Climate Investment Funds
• $168.7 million for Global Environmental Facility
• $27 million for Multilateral Development Bank Climate Trust Funds and Facilities
• $18.5 million for Diplomatic Policy and Support, Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, including costs for the U.S. Center at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• $16 million for World Meteorological Organization
• $6 million for Diplomatic Policy and Support, Energy Resources
• $4.8 million for International Renewable Energy Agency
• $537 thousand for International Union for Conservation of Nature

03/22/2023 at 10:00AM

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee Executive Session on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. ET to consider legislation and a presidential nomination. The Committee will hold a full committee hearing titled “Improving Rail Safety in Response to the East Palestine Derailment” directly following the Executive Session.

Executive Session

Agenda:

• S. 66, NOTAM Improvement Act of 2023
• S. 90, Informing Consumers About Smart Devices Act
• S. 127, Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2023
• S. 318, Save our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act, to improve the administration of the Marine Debris Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• S. 467, CADETS Act
• Nomination of Mr. Phillip A. Washington to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (PN9)

Executive Session Details:

Full Committee Executive Session Wednesday, March 22, 2023 10:00 a.m. ET Committee Hearing Room, Russell 253

Hearing: Improving Rail Safety in Response to the East Palestine Derailment

The Committee will hear testimony regarding Norfolk Southern’s safety record and how the February 3, 2023, derailment and the controlled burn of vinyl chloride impacted the East Palestine, Ohio, community. Witnesses will also discuss suggestions for how to improve the safety of the nation’s rail network, hazardous materials transportation safety and emergency response, including the provisions of S. 576, the Railway Safety Act of 2023.

Introduction Panel:

• U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown
• U.S. Senator J.D. Vance
• Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio
• Misti Allison, Resident of East Palestine

Witnesses:

• Jennifer Homendy, Chair, National Transportation Safety Board
• David Comstock, Chief, Ohio Western Reserve Joint Fire District
• Clyde Whitaker, Legislative Director, Ohio State SMART-TD
• Alan Shaw, CEO, Norfolk Southern
• Ian Jefferies, CEO, Association of American Railroads

03/22/2023 at 10:00AM

The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit (The Summit) is an annual conference and technology showcase that brings together experts from different technical disciplines and professional communities to think about America’s energy challenges in new and innovative ways. Now in its thirteenth year, the Summit offers a unique, three-day program aimed at moving transformational energy technologies out of the lab and into the market.

The summit is taking place at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland.

Agenda: Day One | Day Two | Day Three

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks & Keynote Address

Evelyn Wang, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA‑E)

10:15 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.

Fireside Chat

Jennifer M. Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Energy , U.S. Department of Energy

Dr. Shreya Dave, Chief Executive Officer , Via Separations

Dr. Leah Ellis, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Sublime Systems

Joe Zhou, Chief Executive Officer, Quidnet Energy

10:50 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Fireside Chat

Don Graves, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce

David Turk, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy

11:15 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.

Keynote Address

Ernest J. Moniz, MIT Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Post-Tenure

11:35 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.

Fireside Chat

Arati Prabhakar, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology

Dr. David M. Hart, Professor of Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

11:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

Keynote Address

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Government Agency Networking Program (GANP)

The Government Agency Networking Program (GANP) at the annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit provides an opportunity to meet with representatives from federal government agencies to discuss research interests, funding solicitations, grants, and other potential partnership opportunities.

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Fast Pitch: Batteries & Storage

Dr. Peter de Bock, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Halle Cheeseman, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Julia Greenwald, Fellow, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Jack Lewnard, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Laurent Pilon, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Lab to Impact: Maximizing Success with Technology Licensing Offices

In this panel, we will delve into best practices for how and when to engage with Technology Licensing Offices, and what common pitfalls to avoid. We will hear from a diversity of stakeholders representing an inventor, investor, lawyer, and licensing office, who will share their successes and failures – drawing from decades of experience. Whether you are looking to spin out a startup or license a technology, this panel will help provide practical takeaways on how to maximize success and impact.

Dr. Christina Chang, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital

Dylan Adams, Patent Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine

Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang, Co-Founder, Form Energy, Sublime Systems, Desktop Metal, 24M Technologies and A123 Systems

Deirdre Zammit, Associate Director, Licensing, MIT Technology Licensing Office

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy Given the Recent Achievement of Ignition at the National Ignition Facility

This panel will address the following questions about the prospects for inertial fusion energy (IFE): Can lasers be made efficient enough to enable a commercial IFE power plant? Can targets be made inexpensively and at scale? Are the physics challenges going from indirect drive (as is done on the National Ignition Facility) to direct drive (or another concept) tractable?

Dr. Tammy Ma, Lead, Intertial Fusion Energy Initiative, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dr. Kramer Akli, Program Manager, DOE Office of Science

Dr. Carly Anderson, Principal, Prelude Ventures

Dr. Susana Reyes, VP of Chamber and Plant Design, Xcimer Energy

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Fast Pitch: Industrial Processes

Dr. Katharine Greco, Fellow, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Jonathan Melville, Fellow, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. James Seaba, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Douglas Wicks, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Olga Blum Spahn, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Decarbonizing the “Bus Stop” of the Future: Innovations in Urban Transportation

As cities strive to reduce carbon emissions and improve urban transportation, defining the “bus stop” of the future, and with it, the necessary technology innovations and infrastructure, is becoming increasingly important. In high population density areas, where large metro systems are not available, the energy implications of the shift towards electrified and on-demand mobility options must be considered. Ride-hailing services currently optimize for pick-up proximity, but what does the equivalent approach for passenger transit look like in these situations and what role does energy efficiency need to play when the most convenient option is continued reliance on privately owned, personally driven cars? How does the increase in car sales during the pandemic further factor into future solutions? This thought-provoking panel will explore the disruptive innovations and flexible options that can address the energy consumption of future modes of urban transportation and tackle the question of how to ensure equity for all.

Dr. Robert Hampshire, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research & Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation

Benjamin de la Peña, Chief Executive Officer, Shared-Use Mobility Center

Carolyn Gonot, General Manager/Chief Executive Officer, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority

Gabe Klein, Executive Director, U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Beyond VC: Alternative Funding Sources for Startups

Panelists from a range of non-dilutive (federal, state and non-profit) and “less-dilutive” (venture debt, in various structures) funding sources will discuss how energy- and climate-tech startups can navigate non-traditional funding sources to best support their companies’ growth plans.

Hilary Flynn, Managing Director, Investments, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

Jackie Logan, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Raise Green

Max Tuttman, Principal, The Ad Hoc Group

Jonah Wagner, Chief Strategist, Department of Energy Loan Program Office National Harbor 10

5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Tech Demo: Advanced Operation & Maintenance Techniques implemented in the Xe-100 Plant Digital Twin to reduce Fixed O&M Cost

X-energy is an Advanced Reactor design company and an awardee of the ARPA-E GEMINA Program. The main objective of the GEMINA Program is to demonstrate how Digital Twins can reduce Fixed Operations & Maintenance (O&M) costs for the Advanced Reactors (i.e. the Xe-100). X-energy’s 3D Immersive Digital Twin Experience demonstrates the integration between the physics-based Xe-100 Simulator and a 3D virtual representation of the Xe-100 plant. Users can walk through and interact with the Virtual Reality (VR) model as if it were the real Xe-100 plant. During the design phases of the Xe-100, the 3D model is being used for iterative design reviews to incorporate feedback, optimize layouts, and inform future work. During the operation phase of the Xe-100, the 3D model will be used for training of plant staff, particularly Maintenance crews. Combined with X-DATAâ„¢, X-energy’s Digital Twin product, the 3D Immersive Environment supports the implementation of “Central Maintenance” concepts that will ultimately lead to a safer, more reliable, and more economic nuclear plant for the 21st century.

5:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Tech Demo: Low-cost non-destructive plant root phenotyping

Tomographic Electrical Rhizosphere Imager (TERI) is a technology aiming to make plant root phenotyping easier and faster. Root digging, washing, photographing, counting, and analysis have been the standard practice for field scale root phenotyping for a very long time. This is a process that is low throughput and very time and labor consuming. TERI aims to disrupt this practice to significantly accelerate plant root phenotyping at field scales to help accelerate the development of new root-superior plant varieties that are more resource efficient and climate resilient. TERI technology is based on the dialectic properties and behavior of plant root systems and can work under almost any type of soil, moisture, and plant species conditions. The lightweight of the hardware system and the user-friendly software interface make the system very easy to use by anyone without the technical background.

6:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.

Tech Demo: Basin-SCAN: Basin Scale Continuous oil and gas emissions mitigAtion Network

Founded in 2018 through the ARPA-E MONITOR program, LongPath Technologies is the “5G” of methane measurement and abatement, providing a proven and standardized approach across the value chain. Our specialized laser systems detect, locate and quantify site-level emissions across 20+ square mile regions with a single laser tower, and the continuous emissions monitoring networks provide actionable real-time alerts and quantitative emission rates to oil and gas operators. LongPath’s innovative regional-scale solution provides continuous, reliable data at the lowest cost to the customer.

7:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Tech Demo: Pilot Production for Commercial Sampling of Rare-Earth-Free Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets

Niron Magnetics has developed the first powerful permanent magnets free of rare earths and other critical materials. Niron’s Iron Nitride-based Clean Earth Magnet® technology makes use of globally available commodity raw material inputs. As an ARPA-E SCALEUP awardee, Niron is expanding its pilot production to support commercial design partnerships, including those with GM, Volvo Cars, Western Digital, Tymphany Audio, and Premium Sound Solutions.

03/22/2023 at 10:00AM

Join Third Act for a National Day of Action on March 21, 2023 – 3.21.23! Together we demand banks stop funding climate chaos.

Over the past year, thousands of you have taken the Banking on Our Future pledge to close your accounts, cut up your credit cards, and boycott Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo if they don’t move their investments out of fossil fuels. On 3.21.23, we gather to show the strength of our movement!

You don’t need to be a cardholder or a Third Actor to participate––we need people of all ages, races, and means to make visible the connection between cash and carbon. Bring your friends, energy, and creativity!

Find an event on the map or see a full listing.

In Washington DC, an interfaith group will hold a brief prayer service and then lead a slow-moving Walk of Hope around the 2-block area at Franklin Park, singing and cheering on the rocking chair vigil keepers. At midday, there will be a Rally with music, food, testimonials from frontline communities, appeals from youth, and cutting up credit cards, and we are honored that Bill McKibben himself will join us, along with Ben Jealous, Ebony Twilley Martin and Rose Abramoff!

In the afternoon a louder March of Action featuring union and youth contingents, drummers and chants, and big puppets will return to the banks, where labor activists and others will form picket lines outside each bank. The day will culminate with a joyful Rocking Chair Rebellion in an intersection outside two of the banks, featuring seniors in rocking chairs blocking the bank entrances, chalk art, music, puppets and more.

03/21/2023 at 10:00AM