David Kim, Secretary, California State Transportation Agency
Kevin Corbett, President and CEO of New
Jersey Transit, Co-Chair, Northeast Corridor Commission
Julie White, Deputy Secretary for Multimodal Transportation, North
Carolina Department of Transportation, Commission Chair, Southeast
Corridor Commission
Donna DeMartino, Managing Director, Los Angeles – San Diego – San Luis
Obispo Rail Corridor Agency
Knox Ross, Mississippi Commissioner and Chair, Southern Rail
Commission
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee
During this
hearing,
the subcommittee will receive testimony on federal, state, and local
efforts to address the nation’s brownfields and other contaminated
properties, and how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
accelerates those efforts.
Witnesses
Lucy Vinis, Mayor, Eugene, OR
Michael Goldstein, Chairman, Public Policy, Redevelopment Incentives,
and Regulatory Partnerships Committee, National Brownfields Coalition
Susan Bodine, Partner, Earth & Water Law
Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Associate Professor & Director, Center for
Community Engagement, Environmental Justice & Health, Maryland
Institute for Applied Environmental Health, School of Public Health
University of Maryland
Jerome Shabazz, Executive Director, Overbrook Environmental Education
Center, Philadelphia
mark! Lopez, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice,
Commerce, Calif.
Third Act is a new way for people over 60 —
“experienced Americans” — to bring their unique skills and resources to
bear on the most pressing issues of our time. We invite you to join our
upcoming launch
event
to learn how you can be a part of our movement.
You’ll hear from Third Act Founder Bill McKibben, Lead Advisor Akaya
Windwood, and a lineup of visionary elders, experienced organizers, and
frontline changemakers as we launch a new way to see your Third Act.
Dr. Elsie Sunderland, Gordan McKay Professor of Environmental
Chemistry, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Abigail Hendershott, Executive Director, Michigan
PFAS Action Response Team (MPART)
Amy Dindal, Director of Environmental Research and Development,
Battelle Memorial Institute
Dr. Peter Jaffé, Professor, Department Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Princeton University
We Don’t Have Time is the name of the world’s largest review platform
for climate solutions, and it is now launching in the United
States on
Thursday, December 2.
Ebony Martin, Co-executive Director, Greenpeace
USA
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., President & CEO of
the Hip-Hop Caucus
Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President of Environmental Justice,
Climate, and Community Revitalization, National Wildlife Federation
2:50 PM EST — Keynote
Tim Kelly, Executive Director, Earth HQ
2:55 PM EST — #DontChooseExtinction
Boaz Paldi, Global Partnership & Engagement Manager,
UNDP
3:00 PM EST — A Climate for Change – The Role
of Media
Dr. Sweta Chakraborty (moderator), President of US Operations, We
Don’t Have Time
Boaz Paldi, Global Partnership & Engagement Manager,
UNDP
Sergio Fernandez de Cordova, Executive Chairman,
PVBLIC Foundation
Ingmar Rentzhog, Founder & CEO, We Don’t
Have Time
3:20 PM EST — Media Interlude
3:30 PM EST — The Role of Business
Joe Romm (moderator), Founder of Front Page Live
Avi Garbow, Environmental Advocate, Patagonia
Adheer Bahulkar, Managing Director, NA Supply Chain, Accenture
Marcus Lovell Smith, Founder & CEO, Neutral
4:05 PM EST — Keynote
John Podesta, Former White House Chief of Staff to President Clinton,
Counselor to President Obama, and Founder of the Center for American
Progress
4:15 PM EST — Media Interlude
4:25 PM EST — The Role of Governments
Nancy Colleton (Moderator), President, Institute for Global
Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Sherri Goodman, Secretary General IMCCS
Monica Medina, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. State Department
On Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 10:00 am
EDT, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral
Resources will host a remote oversight
hearing
titled, “What More Public Lands Leasing Means for Achieving U.S. Climate
Targets”
Witnesses
Carrie Hamblen, NM State Senator (D), District 38,
CEO/President, Las Cruces Green Chamber of
Commerce
Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Executive Director, Western Environmental Law
Center
Jade Begay, Climate Justice Campaign Director,
NDN Collective, Member, White House
Environmental Justice Advisory Council
Nick Loris, Vice President of Public Policy, Conservative Coalition
for Climate Solutions
S.
1229,
to modify the procedures for issuing special recreation permits for
certain public land units, and for other purposes (Simplifying Outdoor
Access for Recreation Act).
S.
1269,
to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture to complete an interagency report on the effects of
special recreation permits on environmental justice communities, and
for other purposes (Environmental Justice in Recreation Permitting
Act).
S. 1616, to provide exceptions from permitting and fee
requirements for content creation, regardless of distribution
platform, including digital or analog video and digital or analog
audio recording activities, conducted on land under the jurisdiction
of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior
(Federal Interior Land Media Act).
S.
1874,
to promote innovative approaches to outdoor recreation on Federal land
and to increase opportunities for collaboration with non-Federal
partners, and for other purposes (Recreation Not Red Tape Act).
S.
2258,
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Parks, Jobs,
and Equity Program to support job creation, economic revitalization,
and park development for communities impacted by
COVID–19 (Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act).
S.
2886,
to amend title 54, United States Code, to authorize the donation and
distribution of capes, horns, and antlers from wildlife management
activities carried out on National Park System land (Cape and Antler
Preservation Enhancement Act).
S.
2887,
to codify the existing Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program
of the National Park Service, and for other purposes (Outdoors for All
Act).
S.
3264,
to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Sectary of
Agriculture to develop long-distance bike trails on Federal lands, and
for other purposes (the Bike Over Long-distance Trails Act).
S.
3266,
to improve recreation opportunities on, and facilitate greater access
to, Federal public land, and for other purposes (Outdoor Recreation
Act).
Witnesses
Christopher French, Deputy Chief, National Forest System,
USDA Forest Service
Mark Lambrecht, Assistant Director, National Conservation Lands &
Community Partnerships, Bureau of Land Management
Fred Ferguson, Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications,
Vista Outdoor
Carlton Waterhouse, of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator, Office
of Solid Waste, Environmental Protection Agency
Amanda Howe, of Virginia, David M. Uhlmann, of Michigan, and Henry
Christopher Frey, of North Carolina, each to be an Assistant
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
and Jennifer Clyburn Reed, of South Carolina, to be Federal
Cochairperson of the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (New
Position)
To be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.