The
hearing
will examine how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Build Back Better
Act would attract new investment to the United States to clean up
hard-to-decarbonize sectors, expand domestic supply chains and
manufacturing of climate solutions, and create good-paying jobs.
Witnesses:
Paul Browning, President & CEO (North
America), Fortescue Future Industries (FFI). Browning leads
FFI’s efforts to expand hydrogen energy in
North America with a goal of producing hydrogen from 100 percent
renewable sources. He was previously the CEO
of Mitsubishi Power Americas, leading a team that expanded hydrogen
projects and started a battery energy storage business.
Abigail Ross Hopper, President and CEO,
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). At
SEIA, Hopper leads a national effort to
expand the reach of solar energy as a significant percentage of U.S.
energy generation. She was previously the Director of the Department
of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which oversees
development and leasing for offshore energy. She was also the director
of the Maryland Energy Administration.
Jessica Eckdish, Vice President, Legislation & Federal Affairs,
BlueGreen Alliance (BGA). Eckdish directs
BGA’s federal legislative, policy, and
partnerships efforts on climate, energy, and infrastructure issues.
Previously, she managed the Sierra Club’s legislative and
administrative advocacy, leading efforts to secure methane emission
standards for the oil and gas sector, as well as federal clean air and
water protections.
Charles McConnell, Executive Director, Center for Carbon Management
and Energy Sustainability, University of Houston Energy. McConnell
leads researchers in the fields of engineering, science, business, and
law to address the needs of oil and gas, petrochemicals, and electric
power markets. He was previously the assistant secretary of energy at
the U.S. Department of Energy, where he oversaw the Office of Fossil
Energy and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Arm In Arm, with SPACEs In Action, Shutdown DC, Code Pink,
CCAN Action, Sunrise, and many other
organizations are planning an action to call out Senators who need a
spine and Biden for not passing Build Back Better who needs a backbone.
We will also take on No Labels and the lobbyists trying to kill
BBB.
We will be elevating the need for climate justice, transit equity, the
need for child care, the child tax credit, a peace economy over wasting
all our money on war, and so much more.
Join us to have your voice and story heard. We, the people, demand
healthy communities, a healthy climate, and a healthy democracy.
We will meet at Black Lives Matter Plaza on Mon. Jan 31 between 6:30 am
and 7:30 am (on the NE corner of 16th and K St NW). Register
here
or on Facebook. We
will be there to welcome you. Dress WARMLY.
Want to learn about how climate policy campaigns are developing in
states across the country – from Vermont to Nebraska to Montana to
Hawaii? Have exciting climate policy developments to share with a
network of like-minded individuals?
Join us for our monthly State Climate Policy Network national
call!
This one-hour, once-a-month call is the perfect opportunity to learn
about the different legislation and movements going on in states across
the US. Legislators, advocates, and experts will join us and inform the
network of what is going on in their state as it relates to climate
policy, and what you might be able to do to help.
For those of you joining us for the first time, the
SCPN call is also an opportunity to simply
listen to other states’ updates and challenges. We typically have
campaign leaders and policymakers in 15-20 states calling in and
providing updates, and dozens of people listening and asking questions
on the line. The call is a great information-sharing and networking
opportunity. Feel free to contact Kristen Soares, our
SCPN Manager, at [email protected]
with any questions, or if you are interested in speaking on an upcoming
call.
To combat climate change, in addition to reducing
emissions, we will also need to remove greenhouse gases from the
atmosphere. Ocean CDR (ocean carbon dioxide
removal) is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean
waters. Sarah Cooley (Ocean Conservancy) will moderate a
conversation
between Holly Buck (University at Buffalo) and Nick Pidgeon (Cardiff
University) about social acceptance, environmental governance, and other
issues around ocean CDR strategies. The
webinar will include discussion of the new National Academies report, A
Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and
Sequestration.
Speakers:
Holly Buck is an assistant professor of Environment and Sustainability
at the University at Buffalo and a contributing author to an
IPCC chapter on cross-sectoral governance,
including carbon dioxide removal governance. Her research involves the
social and environmental dimensions of emerging technologies to remove
carbon from the atmosphere, and she served on the report committee for
A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and
Sequestration.
Nick Pidgeon is a professor of Environmental Psychology and Risk and
the Director of the Understanding Risk Research Group at Cardiff
University. His work focuses on public engagement with risk and
technology, climate change risks, and emerging technologies including
greenhouse gas removal, and he has led numerous projects on public
responses to environmental and technological risk and on ‘science in
society’ for UK Government Departments, the UK Research Councils, the
Royal Society, The US National Science Foundation, and charities. He
is currently Co-Investigator of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate
Mitigation, a major 10-year interdisciplinary effort to understand the
carbon removal potential, localized benefits and risks, public risk
perceptions, and the social and ethical implications of using enhanced
rock weathering technologies in agricultural production settings for
greenhouse gas removal.
Sarah Cooley is the Director of Climate Science at Ocean Conservancy
and currently a Coordinating Lead Author on Working Group II of the
IPCC’s 6th Assessment report. Using science
synthesis and strategic communications, she educates and engages
decision-makers and stakeholders on climate science and ocean
acidification to identify ways that different groups can take action.
Many Americans have grown concerned about the monopoly power that Big
Tech corporations wield. But few people realize that the problem of
concentrated private power also infects the electricity sector. In most
regions, electricity is controlled by a single investor-owned utility
with a government-granted monopoly. Across the country, powerful
utilities are actively blocking decentralized solar energy, degrading
the reliability of the power lines even as they raise prices, and
failing to make the grid investments needed for a clean, carbon-free
future.
Dr. Beverly L. Wright, Executive Director, Deep South Center for
Environmental Justice Co-Chair, National Black Environmental Justice
Network Member, White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council New
Orleans, LA
Max Sarinsky, Senior Attorney, Institute for Policy Integrity, New
York University School of Law
Dr. Kristina Dahl, Senior Climate Scientist, Climate & Energy Program,
Union of Concerned Scientists
Republican Witness:
Lucian (Lou) Pugliaresi (Republican Witness), President, Energy Policy
Research Foundation, Inc. Washington, DC
To combat climate change, in addition to reducing
emissions, we will also need to remove greenhouse gases from the
atmosphere. Ocean