The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis will hold a
hearing
titled “Cutting Methane Pollution: Safeguarding Health, Creating Jobs,
and Protecting Our Climate” on Friday, June 24, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. ET.
The hearing will take place in Room 210 of the Cannon House Office
Building and via Zoom video conferencing.
This hearing will review community perspectives on the public health,
climate, jobs, and economic benefits of cutting methane pollution from
oil and gas infrastructure.
Witnesses:
Patrice Tomcik, Senior National Field Manager, Moms Clean Air Force.
Tomcik’s advocacy and policy work focus on equitable solutions to
protect children’s health from air pollution and climate change. A
resident of Pennsylvania, she first became involved with Moms Clean
Air Force as a volunteer, joining other local parents to push for
clean air safeguards after fracking was permitted at gas wells near
her children’s schools.
Sarah Ann Smith, Chief of Programs, Clean Air Task Force. A member of
Clean Air Task Force’s senior leadership team, Smith led the growth of
the organization’s methane emissions reduction program, building up a
small team into a substantial global operation on four continents.
THE Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs will meet in open session, hybrid format to conduct a
hearing
entitled, “Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program:
Administration Perspectives.”
Witness:
David I.
Maurstad,
Associate Administrator for Resilience (Acting), Federal Emergency
Management Agency
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
The 2023 Department of Agriculture
request
for discretionary budget authority to fund programs and operating
expenses is $31.1 billion, slightly more than 12 percent increase, or
$3.8 billion, above the 2021 enacted level. The 2023 request for
mandatory programs is $164.8 billion, a decrease of around $10.2 billion
from the 2021 level.
Dr. Eric K.
Lin,
Director, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of
Standards and Technology
Dr. Ariel
Stein,
Acting Director, Global Monitoring Laboratory and Director, Air
Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dr. Karen M. St.
Germain,
Earth Science Division Director, Science Mission Directorate, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
Dr. Bryan
Hubbell,
National Program Director for Air, Climate, and Energy, Office of
Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection
Agency
Elizabeth Shortino of the District of Columbia, to be United States
Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund for a term of
two years
David Pressman of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Hungary
Geoffrey R. Pyatt of California, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign
Service, Class of Career Minister, to be an Assistant Secretary of
State (Energy Resources)
Robert A. Wood of New York, to be Alternate Representative of the
United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United
Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate
Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the
General Assembly of the United Nations, during his tenure of service
as Alternate Representative of the United States of America for
Special Political Affairs in the United Nations
Pyatt was ambassador to Ukraine for most of President Obama’s second
term, then served as ambassador to Greece until May 2022.
The Commerce Department 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