On Tuesday, February 8th at 7pm ET, Stop the Money
Pipeline is hosting its first hour-long online
training
on how we can build power to demand that regulators like the Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency curb reckless behavior by Wall Street
that is driving environmental injustice and climate chaos.
Sharon Lavigne, Founder of RISE St. James
and 2021 Goldman Prize Recipient North America
Lisa Anne Hamilton, Attorney and Climate Law and Policy Consultant and
former Adaptation Program Director for the Georgetown Climate Center
Tracey Lewis, Policy Counsel at Public Citizen (moderator)
This
event
was organized by Action Center on Race and the Economy, Americans for
Financial Reform Education Fund, Positive Money US, Public Citizen, Stop
the Money Pipeline, and The Sunrise Project.
During this
hearing,
the committee will receive testimony from state and local officials,
Tribal groups, and other stakeholders who engage with the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (Corps) to discuss priorities for a new water
resources development act (or WRDA) for 2022.
This hearing is the second in a series of three planned hearings to
inform the committee in its development of a new
WRDA, which the committee expects to develop
and approve in 2022.
On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, the Committee on
Oversight and Reform will hold a hybrid
hearing
in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building and on the Zoom video
platform to examine the adequacy of climate pledges made by fossil fuel
companies to reduce carbon emissions and curb global warming.
The hearing is part of the Committee’s investigation into the fossil
fuel industry’s long-running campaign to spread disinformation about
climate change and greenwash its role in causing global warming. The
Committee will hear from climate experts and environmental advocates who
will testify to the urgent need for fossil fuel companies to
fundamentally alter their operations and reduce emissions, and assess
whether the companies’ climate pledges will meet that goal, or are
instead just the latest example of climate disinformation.
Following testimony from the climate experts, the Committee will hold a
hearing next month with members of the Boards of Directors of four
fossil fuel companies.
On Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (EST), the Subcommittee on
National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands will hold a virtual, fully
remote legislative
hearing
on the following bills:
H.R. 6142 (Rep. Tim Ryan, D-OH), To amend the National Trails System
Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the
feasibility of designating the Buckeye Trail as a national scenic
trail, and for other purposes. Buckeye National Scenic Trail
Feasibility Study Act of 2021.
H.R. 6199 (Rep. Jason Smith, R-MO), To revise the boundary of the Ste.
Genevieve National Historical Park in the State of Missouri, and for
other purposes. Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park Boundary
Revision Act.
H.R. 6201 (Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-NJ), To extend the authority
for the establishment of a commemorative work to honor enslaved and
free Black persons who served in the American Revolution, and for
other purposes. National Liberty Memorial Preservation Act.
H.R. 6337 (Rep. Joe Neguse, D-CO), To require the Secretary of the
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop long-distance
bike trails on Federal land, and for other purposes. Biking on
Long-Distance Trails Act.
H.R. 6434 (Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-CA), To direct the Secretary of the
Interior to establish, within the National Park Service, the Japanese
American World War II History Network, and for other purposes.
Japanese American World War II History Network Act.
H.R. 6435 (Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA), To provide for the
application of certain provisions of the Secure Rural Schools and
Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 for fiscal year 2021.
SRS FY21 Technical Fix.
H.R. 6451 (Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-AZ), To establish the Chiricahua
National Park in the State of Arizona as a unit of the National Park
System, and for other purposes. Chiricahua National Park Act.
House Natural Resources Committee
National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee
