Dr. Kathleen Hogan, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for
Infrastructure, U.S. Department of Energy
Dr. Geraldine Richmond, Under Secretary for Science and Innovation,
U.S. Department of Energy
The DOE budget
request
includes $7.8 billion for the Office of Science, $4 billion for energy
efficiency and renewable energy, $893 million for fossil energy and
carbon management, $1.7 billion for nuclear energy, and $297 million for
electricity.
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
On Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. ET, in room 1324 Longworth House
Office Building and via Cisco WebEx, the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans,
and Wildlife will hold a hybrid legislative
hearing
on the following bills:
H.R.
263
(Rep. Mike Quigley, D-IL) To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to
clarify provisions enacted by the Captive Wildlife Safety Act, to
further the conservation of certain wildlife species, and for other
purposes. Big Cat Public Safety Act.
H.R.
3081
(Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-ND) To make certain irrigation districts
eligible for Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program pumping power, and for
other purposes.
H.R.
5880
(Rep. Tom O’Halleran, D-AZ) To amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe
Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability
date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.
H.R.
6238
(Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-NM) To amend the Omnibus Public Land
Management Act of 2009 to increase Tribal access to water conservation
and efficiency grants, and for other purposes. WaterSMART Access for
Tribes Act.
H.R.
7612
(Rep. Mike Levin, D-CA) To advance desalination research and
technological innovation, and for other purposes. Desalination
Research Advancement Act.
H.R.
7632
(Rep. Joe Neguse, D-CO) To provide access to reliable, clean, and
drinkable water on Tribal lands, and for other purposes. Tribal
Access to Clean Water Act.
H.R.
7633
(Rep. Tom O’Halleran, D-AZ) To approve the settlement of water rights
claims of the Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees in the State of
Arizona, to authorize construction of a water project relating to
those water rights claims, and for other purposes. Hualapai Tribe
Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022.
Make no mistake, now is NOT the time to give
up on climate action in Congress. In fact, there has never been a more
critical time to be fighting for climate action in our nation’s capital.
Join us on this webinar to hear what is happening and why – and what we
can accomplish together.
Join the Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund, West Virginia
Rivers and Evergreen Action for a webinar delivering insight on the
state of play of climate legislation in Congress, Sen. Manchin, and what
justice demands legislators do.
On Thursday, May 12, 2022, at 10:00 A.M. EDT,
in room 1324 Longworth Hearing Room and online via Cisco Webex, the
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a hybrid
legislative
hearing
titled, “Reforming the Mining Law of 1872” and will consider the
following legislation:
H.R. 7580 (Grijalva): The Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act
The purpose of this
hearing
is to hear from members of the Surface Transportation Board on their
ideas to improve the efficiency and authority of the Board to better
resolve freight rail conflicts.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee
FTX US is requesting the ability to use a new
kind of ‘non-intermediated’ model of crypto derivatives trading, meaning
there is no intermediary used to hold customer’s funds.
FTX intends to offer its products to retail
participants, and its financial and operational requirements for
participants only require that the participant be able to post the
margin required for a given position.
Rep. Hoyer will discuss the AMAZON21
Act
(H.R 5830), which would authorize a trust fund of $9 billion for the
State Department to enter long-term bilateral agreements with developing
countries to assist them in ending deforestation and reducing greenhouse
gas emissions.
Witnesses:
Panel I:
Steny Hoyer, Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
Rep. Bruce Westerman, Ranking Member, House Committee on Natural
Resources
Panel II:
M. Sanjayan, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Conservation
International
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President, Association for Indigenous Women
and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
Romina Bandura, Senior Fellow, Project on Prosperity and Development,
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary, United States Department of Commerce
The budget requests $11.7
billion
in discretionary funding to support key Commerce Department priorities,
including $372 million for the National Institutes of Standards and
Technology’s (NIST) manufacturing programs, more than $150 million in
new funding to the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to create
jobs and drive growth in economically distressed communities, $110
million to increase services for minority-owned enterprises at the
Minority Business Development Agency, and nearly $7 billion in funding
for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA to catalyze
wind energy, restore habitats, protect the oceans and coasts, and
improve NOAA’s ability to predict extreme
weather associated with climate change).
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban
Development
The 2023 President’s
Budget
requests $71.9 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), approximately $11.6 billion more than the 2022
annualized continuing resolution (CR) level, to support underserved
communities and equitable community development, increase access to and
production of affordable housing, promote homeownership and
wealth-building, advance sustainable communities, climate resilience,
and environmental justice, and strengthen
HUD’s internal capacity.
The budget includes:
$1.1 billion in targeted climate resilience and energy efficiency
improvements in public housing, tribal housing, and other assisted
housing;
$400 million to remove dangerous health hazards from homes, including
mitigating threats from fire, lead, carbon monoxide, and radon
The President’s 2023 Budget supports authorizing the Community
Development Block Grant—Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program. For more
than twenty years, the Congress has appropriated emergency
supplemental funds to HUD in response to
major disasters to address the unmet long term disaster recovery needs
of States, territories, local governments, and Tribes. Authorization
would improve the transparency and predictability of
CDBG-DR funds for impacted communities.
Senate Appropriations Committee
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
